Law enforcement officers exposed a former adviser to the Deputy Minister of Defense and a People's Deputy of the II-IV convocations in a scam involving the embezzlement of $10 million during the purchase of military uniforms in 2022. About this reported the National Police.
It is indicated that in order to seize budget funds for the order of more than 1 million sets of clothing for the Ukrainian military under the agreements concluded in 2022, at inflated prices, the former adviser to the ex-deputy minister of defense entered into a criminal conspiracy with the ex-Deputy of the People's Republic of Ukraine.
According to information, the deputy's son and a foreigner also appear in the outfit. The perpetrators planned to divide more than $10 million of the difference from the purchase price among all participants in the criminal scheme, including officials of the defense department.
"The scheme was organized by a foreigner - a fraudster of an international scale, who was repeatedly brought to criminal responsibility in France, Spain, Turkey and Indonesia. To fulfill the order, he selected a textile holding in Turkey and promised its managers to help in obtaining a large defense order thanks to his connections with influential Ukrainian officials and politicians." — the National Police reports.
The Turkish side reported that the price of manufacturing more than one million sets of military uniforms would cost $25 and issued the fraudster a power of attorney to represent his interests.
The intermediary concluded five agreements with the Ministry of Defense at inflated prices for the amount of more than 35 million dollars on behalf of a company controlled by him, and only after that signed contracts for the amount of 25 dollars with a Turkish garment holding. More than 600 million dollars of the difference was supposed to "fall" into the pockets of the mediator, the adviser of the ex-deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense and the former People's Deputy, who lobbied for the conclusion of these contracts.
The fraudster sent the Turkish side 10 million dollars as a deposit. When the Turks sewed the uniform and delivered it to Ukraine, the intermediary stopped contacting them and did not pay them more than 10 million dollars for the work done. The operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigations and the investigators of the National Police established that the organizer of the scam subsequently spent these funds at his own discretion, law enforcement officers report.
According to the available information, it was established that the participants used the funds received under criminal schemes to purchase luxury cars and real estate, including abroad.
The police conducted 38 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 committed crimes were seized.
The investigators announced to the adviser of the former deputy minister of defense, the former people's deputy and his son that they are suspected 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 imposing an arrest on the property of the participants is being resolved. They face up to 12 years in prison.
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