Odesa Municipal Company Orders Repairs to Crematorium by Firm with russian Ties

The Odesa Municipal Enterprise, which maintains cemeteries, has signed two contracts for the overhaul of crematorium furnaces. The total value of the contracts is UAH 1.8 million. The company, which has a dubious reputation, was hired without a tender, and therefore without competition.

This was reported by the publication Anti-Corruption Dimension.

On August 6, 2024, the Specialized Utility Company in Odesa published two reports on the contracts concluded with Pyrolysis Technology Group. These contracts relate to the overhaul of two furnaces in the crematorium located on the territory of the Novomorsk cemetery at 33 Akademika Glushka Avenue. The cost of repairing furnace No. 2 is UAH 803,882.92, and furnace No. 3 is UAH 1,026,727.28.

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According to the terms of the contracts, the company is to concrete the bottom of kiln No. 2 and insulate kiln No. 3 with sovellite boards. The repair work should be completed by October 30, 2024.

Pyrolysis Technology Group was registered in April 2021 and has an office in Odesa, on the territory of the Kholodmash plant at 57/1 Holovkivska Street. The current director and one of the company's owners, Dmytro Yankovsky, is a resident of Odesa. The other co-owner of the company is Oksana Petrovska from Dnipro.

Oksana Petrovska is probably related to the Petrovsky family, in particular to businessman Oleksandr Petrovsky, who is known by the pseudonym "Narik". The analytical platform YouControl lists Petrovsky as an entrepreneur and philanthropist, president of the Solidarity Charitable Foundation. Oksana Petrovska, according to open sources, is possibly his mother and the director of the Dnipro Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Shevchenko.

Dmytro Yankovskyi also has ties to Russian businessmen, being involved in the oil refining business. He was the founder of L-Brus SCS LLC, which until 2015 had other names, including Ipek Ukraine. His business partners in this company, Semen Stompel and Konstantin Ladygin, have Russian citizenship and ties to the industrial holding company Safe Technologies in Russia.

The company Aipek, in which Yankovsky is also a co-owner, has existed since 2010 and is registered in Odesa, but its Latvian counterpart is connected to Russian businessmen Stompel and Ladygin. Thus, even after the change of ownership, Pyrolysis Technology Group continues to maintain close ties with Russian businessmen, which raises questions about the transparency and legality of the contracts concluded with it for major repairs in Odesa's crematoria.