Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov, against the backdrop of accusations of purchasing and supplying summer jackets for military personnel instead of winter ones, suggested to the couple: if it turns out that the Ministry of Defense really purchased 180,000 summer jackets instead of winter ones, then he will resign.
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Reznikov told Babel about this.
At the same time, if it turns out that the defense department has acquired 180,000 winter jackets, then MP Anastasia Radina should draw up a mandate, and Ukrayinska Pravda journalist Mykhailo Tkach should leave the publication and stop doing journalism for three years.
Reznikov invites the Parliamentary Ethics Committee of the Verkhovna Rada and the Commission of Journalistic Ethics as arbitrators in this pair, and the editorial offices of authoritative Ukrainian publications as observers.
Earlier it was reported that one of the owners of the Turkish company, which received 30 million dollars. 26-year-old Oleksandr Kasai, 26-year-old Oleksandr Kasay, turned out to be the nephew of the people’s deputy of the Servant of the People faction, Gennady Kasai, for the scandalous purchase of light jackets for the Ukrainian military under the guise of winter ones. People’s Deputy Kasai is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence.
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. Deputy Defense Minister Denis Sharapov, a business partner of the head of the presidential office, Andrey Yermak, came to the committee to protect both the Ministry of Defense and Vector avia jackets,” journalist Mikhail Tkach noted.
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.
Source: Racurs
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