Behind the "dirty" information campaign against the State Logistics Operator are people associated with one of the companies that previously fulfilled contracts of the Ministry of Defense for the supply of food for the Armed Forces. This was announced by the Director General of the State Logistics Operator Arsen Zhumadilov on the air of the national telethon, UNN reports.
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"I really hope that the law enforcement agencies will give a proper assessment of the actions of all those who were involved in the last stages. That is, it is one thing when you do not participate in the procedures - this is your decision, but it is another thing when you try to put pressure on other market participants so that they do not enter these procedures, so that they do not offer their products, threaten, etc. I hope that such behavior will be properly assessed by law enforcement agencies, and when they come up with certain investigative actions, suspicions, etc., these names will be known. These are the people behind one of the suppliers," Zhumadilov said.
He added that the firms that blocked the tenders for the supply of food to the Ukrainian army were used to making excessive profits and wanted to leave the system.
"They are used to the fact that they make excessive profits. In our contracts, of course, those business entities that are contracted, they will probably make some profit, but it will not be excessive profit because of the mechanisms to control the price and to control the actual movement of goods. But it will not be excessive profits, it will not be 30-40 percent or more of the contract value.
We had to sign contracts under the new model of supplier relations by March 15. We have fulfilled this task. We are now entering the stage of contract execution," summarized the Director General of DOT.
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The Kyiv District Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the requirements set forth in a draft contract for the purchase of food for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In particular, the plaintiff challenged the requirements regarding the obligation of suppliers to register tax invoices in a timely manner and to provide the customer with the opportunity to check the storage conditions of food to be supplied to the military.
After that, the firms suspected of collusion withdrew from the tenders.
Earlier, the Board of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal, following a lawsuit filed by Trade Granit Invest, canceled the condition prohibiting the participation in tenders of suppliers who failed to fulfill their obligations to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in 2022-2023.
Because of this, the State Logistics Operator was forced to cancel 11 tenders.
The firm Trade Granite Invest is most likely involved in a powerful information attack on the new team of the Defense Ministry and the DOT, which could be led by Viktor Medvedchuk, a traitor to Ukraine.