The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine recognized collusion in the actions of bidders for the purchase of works and services for dredging in the port of Yuzhny On the basis of the facts established by the detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine recognized collusion in the actions of bidders for the procurement of works and services for dredging in the port of South. This is reported by the press service of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Two enterprises that resorted to anticompetitive concerted actions - LLC LIGOS UA and LLC Ukrsvyazhydrostroy - AMCU fined for a total of about 23 million UAH. They are prohibited from participating in bidding for the purchase of goods, works or services at the expense of the state within the next three years.

In October 2015. Yuzhno branch of the State Enterprise The Administration of the seaports of Ukraine has purchased procurement dredging operations in the water area of ??the seaport of Yuzhny. Based on the results of the bidding, an agreement was concluded with LIGOS UA for almost 134 million UAH. The investigation believes that this purchase was carried out at inflated prices.

The investigation of this episode of the detectives of NABU began in late 2015.

"The verdict of the AMCU, which recognized the existence of violations, will become a weighty evidence in the criminal proceedings on corruption in the State Enterprise of the Administration of Seaports of Ukraine," which is being investigated by detectives of the National Academy of Sciences, "it was reported..

The above episode, as well as a number of similar purchases, are investigated by the detectives of the NABU. Law enforcers believe that the interests of the state as a whole were damaged in the amount of about 300 million UAH.

In May 2017 g. a tender for the dredging works in the vicinity of the three berths of the port of Yuzhny was won by the Chinese company China Harbor Engineering.