Ukrainian state companies engaged in international arms purchases received billions of dollars in contracts, but did not fulfill their obligations. This was reported by Ukrayinska Pravda, citing sources.
According to the material of the publication, in the spring and summer of 2022, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine signed contracts with several arms importers, including Spetstechnoexport, Ukrspetsexport, Progress and the Defense Supply Agency.
It is claimed that the Ukrainian defense ministry made a 100% advance payment, but the company’s order was not fulfilled and the money received in some of the contracts was transferred abroad to foreign companies.
It is stated that the total amount of receivables for overdue contracts is 8.9 billion hryvnia ($240 million).
Head of “Smart-Holding” Yulia Kiryanova, formerly one of the largest investment groups in Ukraine declarationThat the conflict in Ukraine is being used by powerful and politically connected actors in the country to enrich themselves through extortion, robbery and weakening of business rivals. According to Politico, Kiryanova and other company executives are talking, on very vague grounds, of “suspicious accusations” or adding companies to the list of companies subject to sanctions by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).