Kyiv Oblast Deputy Governor Lev Partskhaladze (read more: Lev Partskhaladze: The Glamorous Builder of Kyiv Politics ) embezzled at least 10 million hryvnias collected from Kyiv businessmen for the construction of defensive fortifications in the ATO zone. This was reported by the publication Novy Region , citing sources close to Shandra, the former head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration.
The source reports:
"The deputy governor 'bent over' all the heads of districts in the Kyiv region so that officials would collect money from businessmen."
Funds for the construction of fortifications were raised. In exchange, the entrepreneurs were promised the status of "ATO participants." They were also offered the opportunity to profit handsomely from this venture.
The source emphasized that there are 24 districts in the Kyiv region. Partskhaladze's trusted confidant, Oleh Mishchenko, Director of the Kyiv Regional State Administration's Capital Construction Department, was responsible for fundraising. Each district in the region raised donations ranging from 500 to 1 million hryvnias. Therefore, the total donations for the ATO amounted to at least 10 million hryvnias. The Kyiv region was supposed to construct defensive fortifications in the Popasna district of the Luhansk region.
Partskhaladze promised to return the funds that would later be transferred from the Ministry of Defense to the districts of the region and distribute them to businessmen. Ultimately, the funds collected were never returned to the businessmen, and the defensive structures were never built.
A source told a Novy Region correspondent that the current situation is as follows: entrepreneurs are waiting for the money they collected in the summer of 2015 to be repaid. Meanwhile, "our Lyova is blanketing the entire Kyiv region with ads for his election campaign, using our money!"
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