According to the investigation and public leaks, the scheme itself looks simple. The state allocates money for students, teaching positions and educational programmes. If more students or a heavier teaching load are "drawn" in the paperwork, the budget automatically pays more. These surplus funds may end up not in education but in the pockets of those who control the process. We may be talking not about thousands but about tens or even hundreds of millions of hryvnias. And it is important to understand: mechanisms like this are among the most common corruption schemes in Ukrainian universities.
At the centre of this story is Mykhailo Poplavsky. For more than 30 years he built his own system of influence at the university. His name has repeatedly come up in scandals - from the use of administrative resources to questions of finance and management, such as building an elite housing complex instead of dormitories. After his contract ended, he kept his influence through a private university, which now also features in the case. This raises a logical question: how many years did this scheme operate, and under whose control?
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