The only bidder in a 9-million-dollar tender in Odesa was a company linked to a wanted businessman

The Odesa City Council's Road Maintenance Department has conducted a procurement to find a contractor to pay for the maintenance of roadways and sidewalks on municipal streets and roads.

This was reported in the Prozorro electronic procurement system, according to the Center for Public Investigations.

The procurement was conducted in the format of an open tender with special conditions. And the only participant was Progresdorbud Limited Liability Company.

According to the YouControl service, the company was registered in 2016. The owner is currently Yuriy Chetvertakov, whom the publication "Anti-Corruption Dimension " links to businessman Araik Amirkhanyan, who is currently on the wanted list. The reason for these conclusions was that Yuriy Chetvertakov had been the head of Agrosynthesis, a company owned by Hrachik Amirkhanyan, a relative of Araik Amirkhanyan, since 2017.

The list of roads that need to be repaired includes:

• Lustdorfska Road (sidewalk on the section from Serhiy Shelukhin Street to the house at: 140/1 Lustdorfska Road; from Serhiy Shelukhyna Street to the house at: 1406 Lustdorfska Road (even side).
• Lustdorfska Road (sidewalk on the section from Serhiy Shelukhyna Street to Perva Liniya Lustdorfska Road (odd side).
• Kira Muratova Street (sidewalk pavement).

This is not the first time the company has won a tender with one participant. In June 2024, the Road Department of the Odesa City Council conducted a procurement to find a contractor to be paid for the current repair of roadways and sidewalks of municipal streets and roads. At that time, the procurement was also conducted in the format of an open tender with special conditions. And the only participant was Progresdorbud Limited Liability Company.

Before that, the company had already participated in procurement as a single bidder. In particular, in April 2024, the State Enterprise "Local Road Service" held tenders to select a company that would be paid for the current repair of sections of the Rozdilna-Starostyno-Nadiia public road and for the operational maintenance of public roads of local importance in Rozdilnia district of Odesa region.

Both times, Progresdorbud was considered the winner. In the first case, the company was counting on UAH 32 million 817.3 thousand, and in the second case, UAH 36 million 943.1 thousand.

Кирило Бойко