One of the owners of the Turkish company, which received 30 million dollars. for the scandalous purchase of light jackets for the Ukrainian military under the guise of winter jackets turned out to be the nephew of the People’s Deputy of the Servant of the People faction.
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This is 26-year-old Oleksandr Kasai, the nephew of People’s Deputy Gennady Kasai, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence (“Servant of the People”).
This is stated in the journalistic investigation of “Ukrainska Pravda”.
A suspicious scheme for the purchase of light jackets at the price of winter ones became known thanks to another journalistic investigation published on August 10 on ZN.UA.
Then it turned out that the cost of one batch of 4.9 thousand jackets for the army on the way between Turkey and Ukraine increased by about 300 thousand dollars. – deliveries at first cost 142 thousand dollars, and became 421 thousand. On the way to Ukraine, these simple camouflage jackets became “winter” according to the documents.
The supplier of scandalous jackets for the Armed Forces of Ukraine was the Turkish company Vector avia, – said journalist Mikhail Tkach.
It was this company that the Ministry of Defense paid tens of millions of dollars. On August 23, a meeting of the anti-corruption committee of the Verkhovna Rada was held on the scandalous purchase.
Deputy Defense Minister Denis Sharapov, a business partner of the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, came to the committee to protect both the Ministry of Defense and Vector avia jackets,” Tkach said.
Sharapov said that the customer had no comments on the supplied jackets. He also brought a jacket to the meeting, but not from the supply where the jackets on the way to Ukraine documentarily turned from summer and winter ones.
It also turned out that law enforcement officers became interested in the supply of low-quality uniforms from Turkey back in October 2022. Then the customs officers noticed that according to the documents from Turkey to Moldova, clothes for the troops went at the same cost, and from Moldova to Ukraine they entered much more expensive.
Law enforcement officials do not rule out collusion between officials of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Vector avia. The founder and director of this company, Roman Pletnev, is already suspicious of committing a crime.
Pletnev is indeed now the only owner of Vector avia, but until February 2023, the company also had a second owner – a relative of the MP Kasai, now 26-year-old Alexander Pavlovich Kasai.
Before being elected to parliament, Gennady Kasai was the director of the Yunost Sports Palace Motor Sich, whose president was Vyacheslav Boguslaev, suspected of treason. The people’s deputy’s brother, Alexander Kasai’s father, also worked for Boguslayev for many years.
Actually, the ex-co-owner of the supplier of jackets for the Armed Forces of Ukraine until recently was also a handball player of the Motor club of the same Boguslaev, the journalist added.
Alexander Kasai ceased to be a co-owner of the company already after the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities opened the production. And at the time of supplying dubious jackets, he was still one.
Journalists asked Kasai how his nephew, a handball player from Zaporozhye, decided to become a co-owner of a company in Turkey, which later received $30 million from the Ministry of Defense. People’s Deputy assured that then he did not know that his nephew became a co-owner.
I have nothing to do with this company. That my nephew was some kind of founder or something like that, I didn’t know. I know for sure that today he is not the founder, – said Gennady Kasai.
Earlier, the purchase became known through an investigation by ZN.UA. In October-December, Vector avia imported 233,000 jackets worth UAH 20 million and another 202,000 pants worth $13 million to Ukraine. However, in fact, these were not winter jackets, as according to the documents, but light jackets.
Source: Racurs
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