We are talking about the theft of the state order of the Ministry of Defense for dynamic protection for tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in March 2022.
The Security Service and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine collected evidence for the organizers of another scheme to misuse funds from the defense budget of Ukraine. The SBU press service reported this on Wednesday, August 14.
We are talking about the theft of the state order of the Ministry of Defense for dynamic protection for tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in March 2022.
Then, for the serial production of the corresponding parts, an agreement was concluded with a mechanical engineering company in Kyiv. However, the former head of the state-owned enterprise and his chief accountant decided to make illegal “profit” through a government contract.
To do this, they artificially increased the cost of the ordered products, and the resulting difference was brought into the shadows by controlled commercial structures.
The deal caused a damage to the state budget of almost 12 million Hryvnia.
SBU counterintelligence officers documented criminal actions by state-owned enterprise officials and participants in the scheme and blocked it in early 2023. Since that time, investigations and other procedural actions.
Suspicion was reported to the former general director of the state-owned enterprise, his accountant and one of the main participants in the scheme – the head of the commercial structure through which the defendants absorbed budget funds in the shadows.
The head of a commercial structure was detained in Kyiv. The issue of choosing a preventive measure is decided.
Suspicion was also received by a former assistant of the head of a state contracting company and his accomplice – a person who gave his own details for cashing out the stolen money. Also, the former head of a state contractor company and its chief accountant, who are hiding abroad, received suspicions in absentia.
Perpetrators face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of assets.
We remind you that the other day the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Energy Alexander Heil was detained for taking a bribe of 500 thousand dollars. The official promised to provide permission for the money to remove the mining equipment from the front-line area.
The accountant of the supplier of the Ministry of Defense was detained with 4.7 million euros
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Source: korrespondent
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