On July 11, 2025, the Executive Committee of the Beryslav City Council announced a tender for the development of a local waste management plan for the Beryslav City Territorial Community. The expected contract value was UAH 350,000.
Only one bidder applied—Company Center LTD LLC (Kompaniia Tsentr LTD LLC) from Lviv. With no competition, the company was declared the winner and signed the contract on July 30 for the full amount of UAH 350,000.
What We Know About the Company
Company Center LTD LLC was registered on April 18, 2011, in Lviv. The director is listed as Oleh Bota, and the beneficiaries are Yaroslav Dzvonyk (51%, Peremyshliany, Lviv Region) and Mariia Sushchenko (49%, Lviv).
According to NGL Media, the company has been linked to several scandals involving Myroslav Khomiak, former head of the Department of Ecology at the Lviv Regional State Administration (Lviv RSA). In 2014, the Lviv Entrepreneurs’ Committee accused him of creating a scheme to institutionalize bribery through companies tied to his relatives. Shortly afterward, Khomiak resigned.
Company Center LTD LLC has close ties with PE NVP Ekotop, a firm previously implicated in a state tender collusion case and directly connected to Khomiak’s family.
Center LTD used to belong to Khomiak’s family and was registered at the same address as Ekotop -10 Kopernyka Street, Office 6A, Lviv. As of 2025, Ekotop is registered at 111 Zelena Street, Office 40, Lviv. According to YouControl, Oleh Bota has also been listed as the director of Ekotop, suggesting the existence of a joint business network.
Ekotop’s managers have also been involved in other businesses linked to the Khomiak family:
- Director Ihor Ivashko heads VIP-Zakhid LLC, owned by Khomiak’s sons.
- Shareholder Orest Horak was connected with Invest-Aktyv Group LLC, a company owned by Khomiak’s sister and father-in-law (currently headed by Yurii Khomiak).
Myroslav Khomiak has been featured in investigative reporting about the dubious transfer of around 18 hectares of forest land in Briukhovychi. Journalists reported that the land passed through several questionable transactions before ending up with companies linked to Oleh Rudnytskyi and Khomiak’s sons.
No criminal charges were ever brought against Myroslav Khomiak.
Similar Tenders in Other Regions
We also noted that Company Center LTD LLC won a similar tender for the development of a Local Waste Management Plan for the Mala Liubasha Territorial Community in Rivne District, Rivne Region, including its strategic environmental assessment. The contract value there was UAH 155,000.
Unlike Beryslav, the Mala Liubasha community is not located in a frontline area.
The company is also known to have signed a contract for developing a waste management plan for the Okhtyrka City Territorial Community, valued at UAH 679,000.
The difference in contract values may be explained by several factors: increased risks and costs of working in frontline communities (as in Beryslav), the scale and complexity of the work, and the level of competition in tenders. Still, these remain assumptions that require further verification.
Conclusion
The procurement for Beryslav’s waste management plan was awarded to a company directly tied to Myroslav Khomiak, former head of the Ecology Department of the Lviv Regional State Administration. This connection deserves special scrutiny, given that the department itself is responsible for waste management and environmental policy.
The overlap between a former official’s role in environmental governance and business structures winning state contracts in the same field creates reputational risks and raises doubts about the transparency and independence of the procurement process.
It is also worth noting the lack of competition in this tender, which often leads to inflated prices and reduced efficiency in the use of public funds.
At the same time, comparing this contract with similar ones in non-frontline communities - UAH 155,000 in Mala Liubasha, and UAH 679,000 in Okhtyrka - shows significant price variation. This may stem from the complexity of work in frontline zones, but it could also reflect insufficient competition or other opaque factors.
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This material was published with the support of the Czech non-governmental organization NESEHNUTÍ within the framework of the Transformational Cooperation Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
