The Deputy Defense Minister and ex-MP were exposed for embezzling more than доларів 10 million in the purchase of uniforms for the army. Reports UNN with reference to the press service of the National Police of Ukraine.
Law enforcement officers exposed an ex-adviser to the Ministry of Defense and a people's deputy on a large-scale scam regarding the purchase of military uniforms in 2022
As it became known UNN from its own sources, we are talking about an assistant to the former Deputy Defense Minister Roman Balykin and Igor Franchuk.
Details according to the investigation information
It is noted that the scheme was organized by a foreign fraudster of an international scale, who was repeatedly brought to criminal responsibility in France, Spain, Turkey and Indonesia. He picked up a textile holding company in Turkey and promised to assist in obtaining a major defense order through his connections with influential Ukrainian officials and politicians.
The Turkish side said that the cost of manufacturing more than a million sets of military uniforms will cost 2 25,600,000 and issued a power of attorney to represent its interests to the fraudster.
The intermediary entered into five inflated agreements with the Ministry of defense of Ukraine worth more than 3 35 million on behalf of the company under his control, and only then signed contracts worth 2 25,600,000 with a Turkish clothing holding.
More than 1 10 million of the difference was supposed to "go" into the pockets of an intermediary, an adviser to the ex-deputy minister of Defense and a former MP who lobbied for the conclusion of these contracts.
The fraudster sent the Turkish side 1 10 million as a deposit. When the Turks sewed off the uniform and delivered it to Ukraine, the intermediary stopped contacting them and did not give them more than понад 10 million for the work done. Operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations and Investigators of the National Police found that in the future the organizer of the scam spent these funds at his own discretion.
According to available information, it is established that the participants used the funds received under criminal schemes to purchase luxury cars and real estate, including abroad.
The police conducted 38 authorized searches at the places of residence and work of Ukrainian citizens involved in the criminal scheme, as a result of which documents, cars, mobile phones and computer equipment containing evidence of crimes were seized.
Investigators of the National Police collected enough evidence to announce to the adviser of the ex-deputy minister of Defense, the former MP and his son on suspicion of fraud on a particularly large scale, committed by a group of persons (Article 28, Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The issue of seizing the property of the defendants is being resolved. They face up to 12 years in prison.