Kollex LLC

Kollex LLC is a subcontractor whose wage-theft pattern surfaces through a distinctive mechanism: materials-cost withholding as the pretextual non-payment vehicle. Ivan Krivoshlykov at Star Dust Industries — himself another subcontractor — publicly called Kollex's principal Alex Charnetski a "scammer / cheat" in a thread about a shared AT&T PP-swap site. Ivan's detailed allegation: "Materials weren't paid for" — Kollex paid for labor but withheld approximately $1,000-$1,200 for materials. Ivan's accounting: "Out of the two thousand paid, 1200 went to materials. That's why it's unpaid". A second independent commentator (Egor Osin) corroborates the pattern: the issue isn't the invoices, it's Alex's framing — "I'm right, and a thousand here have one brain cell and don't understand anything". Third-party corroboration from a peer subcontractor, which is the strongest evidentiary class the investigation documents for allegations of this kind.

Kollex's operational picture layers on. Alex posts Kollex LLC recruiting for AT&T swap markets — Ohio, Washington DC (Jacobs), BAWA — with either percentage-of-site or day-rate payment structure. The recruiting specifies "Washington DC Jacobs" as the work location — placing Kollex directly in the Jacobs PA supply chain that 4Tech is documented dominating further north. Alex also publicly solicits "used equipment, ropes, and all tower-related stuff (harnesses, slings, etc.)" without specifying inspection or certification requirements — used life-safety equipment purchased from unknown provenance, a safety exposure for every crew that subsequently uses it. The materials-withholding wage-theft pattern and the used-harness procurement pattern sit in the same recruiter's operational mode. Both are efficiency choices against cost. Both land on the worker side of the balance sheet.