Law enforcement and regulatory authorities have launched a large-scale inspection regarding the ineffective use of budget funds allocated for the construction of a gym and a road in the village of Oblapy, Kovel district.

The initiators of the inspection were villagers and representatives of right-wing political parties who filed a collective complaint with the inter-district prosecutor's office (38 signatures in total).

The gym in Oblapy was built over ten months and opened with pomp at the end of October last year. Even a trusted representative of one of the presidential candidates came to its opening. As Anatoliy Semenyuk, the administrative manager of the Kovel district council, who was responsible for the construction of this facility, wrote at the time in a local newspaper, "the gym is such that you won't find its like everywhere even in district centers." Literally within a few months, the roof of the new structure began to leak, rainwater constantly gets onto the floor and has to be pumped out. And in winter, snow got into the premises through ventilation shafts. Some walls have already developed cracks. The locker room also turned out to be unfinished. And this is only part of the shortcomings of the gym, on which half a million hryvnias were spent. The structure was built by private firms "OlShe" and "Veres," PMK-22, SPMK-6, and the enterprise "Elektro."

Another fact being investigated by law enforcement officers and KRV [State Financial Inspection] employees is the use of funds for the construction of two kilometers of a dilapidated road leading from the Oblapy church to the neighboring village of Dorotyshche. It was planned to be made of asphalt concrete, but road workers here poured sand, leveled it, and "added" crushed stone here and there on top, and covered it with earth on both sides. If official documents are to be believed, such a "repair" cost 92 thousand hryvnias. Today this road has fallen into an unusable state, and after rains it is completely impossible to pass through here.

Yaroslav HAVRYLYUK, own cor. of "Volyn"