{"id":1331516,"date":"2025-12-11T12:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bought-at-three-times-higher-prices-large-scale-corruption-scheme-exposed-in-defense-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:56:54","slug":"bought-at-three-times-higher-prices-large-scale-corruption-scheme-exposed-in-defense-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/bought-at-three-times-higher-prices-large-scale-corruption-scheme-exposed-in-defense-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought at three times higher prices: large-scale corruption scheme exposed in defense industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NABU, SAPO, and SBU jointly exposed a corruption scheme at a defense enterprise, through which more than 102 million hryvnias were embezzled, which were supposed to be used to protect the equipment of the Defense Forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/nab_ukraine\/3602\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the press service of the anti-corruption bureau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the investigation, during the active Russian offensive in April 2022, the Ministry of Defense concluded a contract with the company for the urgent purchase of dynamic protection for tanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, the then CEO of the company, the commercial director, and the director of the private company organized a scheme under which tank lids and sumps were purchased at almost three times the price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;To hide the crime, the director of the company made purchases through fictitious companies. The resulting &#8220;margin&#8221; was transferred to controlled accounts for legalization,&#8221; NABU explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, suspicions have been raised against three participants in the scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> We will remind, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nabu-provelo-obshuky-u-podatkoviy-sluzhbi-shcho-vidomo\/\">detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau conducted searches in the Central Office of the Tax Service<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/operatsiia-midas-tryvala-ponad-rik-nabu-opryliudnyly-pershi-audiozapysy-fihurantiv-koruptsii-v-enerhetytsi\/\">NABU and SAPO are conducting a large-scale operation &#8220;Midas&#8221; to expose corruption in the energy sector<\/a> . According to the investigation, the activities of a high-level criminal organization were established, which controlled financial flows and personnel decisions in state energy structures.<\/p>\n<p> It is known that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/komu-nabu-povidomylo-pro-pidozru-v-mezhakh-koruptsiynoi-spravy-nazvani-imena\/\">journalists from &#8220;Schemes&#8221; identified the names of individuals whom NABU detectives reported suspicious<\/a> as part of an investigation into corruption in the energy sector, including Timur Mindich.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NABU, SAPO, and SBU jointly exposed a corruption scheme at a defense enterprise, through which more than 102 million hryvnias were embezzled, which were supposed to be used to protect the equipment of the Defense Forces. This was reported by the press service of the anti-corruption bureau. According to the investigation, during the active Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1331502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1331516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}