Mykolaiv City Hall ordered an inspection of the Zoria swimming pool after the NikVesti article about fake receipts

Communal swimming pool Zoria in Mykolaiv after repair. Archive photo of NikVesti

The Mykolaiv City Council will conduct an official investigation following the publication of NikVesti about the fact that customers are being issued fake receipts at the Zoria communal pool.

This was reported in the press service of the city council.

«Yesterday, the Mykolaiv publication NikVesti published information about violations in the activities of the utility company. It was about issuing pre-printed checks of other buyers when signing up for a season ticket at the Zoria city swimming pool,» the report says.

The city council said that they plan to conduct an official investigation, the results of which may lead to personnel changes. They promised that they would later inform about the completion of the investigation and its results.

«Deputy Mayor for Humanitarian Affairs Anatolii Petrov thanked the journalists for the conducted analysis,» the message reads.

We will remind you that in the Mykolaiv city pool Zoria when buying season tickets in cash, citizens are given pre-printed checks from other customers. In these checks, the date, time of payment, as well as other specific marks of fiscal checks do not match, which may indicate uncontrolled circulation of cash in the utility institution.

Earlier, in the article «How the communal swimming pool Zoria works after repair», the journalist NikVesti tried to find out how much the pool earns from the sale of season tickets. However, Volodymyr Kosse, director of the communal institution on whose balance sheet the pool is located, refused to name any amounts.

Repair of the Zoria sports complex

In May 2023, the first swim took place in the renovated pool of the Zoria sports complex in Mykolaiv.

Before that, Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych inspected the pool. He said that the reconstruction of the sports complex takes place in two stages. The first stage involved the repair of the pool bowl, changing rooms and other technical premises that will ensure the operation of the pool. The second phase, which is still ongoing, involves the repair of the gym, locker rooms, insulation of the building and other works.

The process of transferring Zoria to the ownership of the city began back in August 2018. Two years later, in March 2020, the sports complex was transferred to the municipal ownership of Mykolaiv. At the same time, the state enterprise Ukroboronprom compensated the city with 5 million hryvnias for the repair of Zoria.

After handing over the sports complex, Oleksandr Sienkevych promised to launch the Zoria swimming pool in the fall of 2020. However, the work was delayed. In autumn 2021, the capital construction department of the city council announced tenders for the capital repair and restoration of the Zoria sports complex with an expected cost of 94 million 915 thousand 520 hryvnias.

In December 2021, Vice Mayor Vitalii Lukov announced that the reconstruction of the Zoria sports complex will be completed no earlier than the second half of 2022. Later, during the reconstruction of the swimming pool in the Zoria sports complex, 7 cracks were found in the bowl of the object.

Subsequently, the mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Sienkevych announced the launch of the Zoria sports complex in February 2022. Due to the start of a full-scale war, the completion of the works and the launch of the pool were postponed again.