Kyiv’s “Okhmatdyt” hospital will be renovated by a company involved in 10 criminal cases – media

The company selected to repair a building at Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital—damaged during a missile attack in July 2024—is involved in ten criminal investigations, including four related to the embezzlement of state funds.

This was reported by the investigative outlet Slidstvo.info.

The hospital held a tender for the restoration of one of its buildings, which was won by the company RIOLA-MODUL LTD. A contract has already been signed for the repair work.

The company has been accused four times of embezzling state funds in collusion with officials from the Sumy and Donetsk regions. Between 2015 and 2023, RIOLA-MODUL LTD appeared in ten criminal proceedings.

For example, in December 2017, the company signed a contract with the Mariupol Regional Hospital for Intensive Care to carry out building repairs for 55,410,650 hryvnias (approx. $2 million at the time), funded by the state budget. It was later discovered that the company had inflated the cost of materials by roughly twofold.

Former Minister of Ecology Roman Abramovsky previously worked for this company, and the wife of company owner Volodymyr Dukhovych has held positions in the State Audit Service, the Ministry of Energy, and Energoatom (Ukraine’s state nuclear energy enterprise).