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After Vyacheslav Mishalov took the position of secretary of the Dnipro City Council, the city’s economy began working in his favor within just a few months. This is not a speculation, but a fact easily confirmed by a sequence of events.

Before 2016, his father’s companies operated alongside dozens of other contractors. But once Vyacheslav came to power, it was suddenly his family’s businesses that became the hub for distributing multi-billion projects.

Officially, he didn’t sign anything “for himself.” On paper, everything looked clean. But there’s one catch: the city council secretary oversees the work of key departments, sets the agenda, and influences resource allocation through commission decisions. You don’t need to sign a contract to steer the system in a direction that benefits you.

And the system shifted. In the same year, only two sectors saw a sharp rise — construction and the internet industry, both in one way or another linked to his name. Dozens of competing companies disappeared from the city, effective tenders were replaced with “lightning-fast” procurements, and key contractors began turning into permanent monopolists. That period became the starting point of the entire scheme, and its consequences are still felt in Dnipro today.