Employees of a defense company in Kiev stole $290 thousand intended for the development of dynamic protection for tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on its Telegram channel.
We are talking about an agreement signed between the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Kiev machine-building enterprise on the development of dynamic protection for armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2022. At the same time, the company’s employees deliberately inflated the amounts in the contract, pocketing the difference at the real cost of the products.
According to the case materials, this scheme caused damage to the state budget of Ukraine in the amount of almost 12 million hryvnias (about 290 thousand dollars).
Before this SBU reported On the arrest of the deputy head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine for a bribe of $500 thousand. Abusing his authority, the official promised to freely transfer valuable mining equipment from mines in the DPR to the heads of state-owned enterprises in the Lviv-Volyn coal basin.
Previously It became clear About Polish tanks at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Source: Gazeta
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