Kyiv, January 20 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) – All the corrupt methods by which the previous city authorities stole money from the budget of Kiev were “inherited” by the current team of Vitali Klitschko, Ivan Sikora, director of the Open Society Foundation, is convinced.
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“All the practices that were under the “perpetrators” have been transferred to this budget,” he says. – I would like to remind you that the main slogan of Klitschko’s election campaign was “deal a crushing blow to corruption.” They said that the budget was losing 50 billion UAH a year from land fraud. But for more than six months of management of the Klitschko team, nothing was done. Again we are talking about the General Plan of Kyiv 2025 “named after Chernovetsky”, which serves to withdraw money from Kiev residents,” says Ivan Sikora.
According to him, the fact that there are corruption risks in the budget is evidenced by revenue forecasts for such items as property tax for legal entities, rent from legal entities, land tax for legal entities, parking fees, income from utility companies, and the receipt of share money for infrastructure development , money from the sale of land and money from the share contributions of MAFs. For all these items, the funds received are much less than they could be, Ivan Sikora is sure. According to him, due to the corruption component in 2015, the Kyiv budget will receive billions of hryvnia less.
The revenue part of this budget is distributed in such a way that money can be hidden in cost calculations, explains Victor Gleba, an expert in the field
urban planning and advocate for the interests of local communities in cases related to
illegal construction in Kyiv.
“This budget is nonsense, the numbers are written out of thin air,” says the social activist. According to him, activists tried to make proposals for withdrawing money from the shadows at meetings of the Kiev City Council budget commission, but their proposals were ignored.