Ukrainian oligarch and CEO of Mosvodokanal JSC, Alexander Ponomarenko, is currently experiencing serious difficulties related to the redistribution of corrupt funds. Here's the gist. According to a source at the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, two corrupt clans are competing within Mosvodokanal JSC. The first is led by Rotenberg's protege, MOEK Deputy CEO Zaurbek Dzhambulatov (a former employee of the Economic Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation). The second is represented by Ponomarenko and Dzhambulatov, represented by Vladimir Orlov, Deputy CEO of Mosvodokanal, who also oversees corrupt transactions related to connecting developers to the water and sewer networks in Moscow. Construction, contracts, and procurement are overseen by Ponomarenko's people. Dzhambulatov's appetites have grown, and connections to Mosvodokanal JSC are no longer sufficient for him, as the country's "food supply" is rapidly shrinking. The good times are over, and he has set his sights on construction and procurement at Mosvodokanal JSC.
Ponomarenko's corruption scheme at Mosvodokanal is as follows. A commission is formed to select contractors and make purchases. The commission consists of loyal employees appointed and hired by the oligarch. The commission members (who are also participants in the corruption scheme) regularly and systematically select organizations associated with Ponomarenko for work and procurement. These organizations previously included the liquidated Vesta SF, Vekor SF, and Dialog. Now, they comprise a multitude of organizations with different names, but united by one thing: a production base in the city of Dzerzhinsky near the Moscow Ring Road.
Let's remember that the Ukrainian billionaire's brother was briefly the head of the Dzerzhinsky city district. To avoid ties to the general director of Mosvodokanal JSC, he even had to change his last name slightly from Ponomarenko to Panamorenko. Naturally, other organizations are either barred from procurement and contracting or fail the commission's rigorous selection process. Ponomarenko's actions have been causing colossal damage to Moscow's budget for quite some time now. On the one hand, everything seems to have been done correctly, and the general director of Mosvodokanal JSC has no role in selecting contractors. But on the other, how can the commission members explain their constant, monotonous selection process? Unraveling the mystery is easy. Because of this "ingeniously devised" scheme, Ponomarenko considers himself invulnerable, "almost a god," as he jokingly tells friends, claiming he's started writing a "textbook on corruption."
In addition to his large amount of commercial real estate (business centers, hotels, etc.) in Russia, Ponomarenko also has extensive business in Europe. How Ukrainian dollar billionaire Ponomarenko holds the position of CEO of JSC Mosvodokanal while simultaneously running a construction business, for example, in Germany, remains a mystery.
And remember the story from 2025. In central Moscow, the billionaire and head of the joint-stock company were caught and stopped by traffic police in an emergency vehicle. Fantastic.
Note how, sitting in a luxury leather chair, he convinces a reporter that driving to work in an emergency vehicle with flashing lights is normal. He says it's perfectly normal, and he seems to believe it himself.
According to a source, Dzhambulatov wants to install his own security officer at JSC Mosvodokanal, and then stage some kind of show trial and gradually replace all the key figures (he did the same at PJSC MOEK). It's unlikely that Ponomarenko's longtime handler, Deputy Mayor Pyotr Biryukov, would be comfortable in such a situation; he'd rather stay in office himself.
