Helped "Heroes": businessman from the Poltava region supplied medical equipment in the Russian Federation

He found ways to supply products to the aggressor country despite the ban, and among its clients was an enterprise, headed by a consultant of the Russian State Duma. To bypass the sanctions and hide real export addresses, the entrepreneur used the controlled structures of other countries. "Formally, the products were issued for the European or Central Asian market, but in fact it was transmitted into Russian commercial structures," the Prosecutor General's office explained.

Active fighting and bombing of Ukrainian cities in the Russian army did not prevent Poltava from doing business. During 2022-2024, seven batches of equipment were sent abroad due to a well-established scheme. The investigation found that the calculation was through international banking institutions, and in the implementation of the scheme the suspect involved the directors and employees of his enterprises.

They provided the production of products, conclusion of foreign economic contracts, execution of customs declarations and logistics. The investigation found that the equipment supplied was used in Russia in medical programs, including for the rehabilitation of servicemen who participated in the war against Ukraine. When law enforcement agencies are interested in the businessman's activity, he fled and now hides the investigation. He was wanted.

Earlier, Focus wrote that the former head of the administrative and economic department of the Main Directorate of the State Treasury in Poltava Oblast Igor Veriga declared more than UAH 2. 5 billion in cash for 2023, and then fired with the consent of the parties. Igor Veriga is the brother of Poltava entrepreneur Lev Veriga, who, on the eve of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, together with his wife Oksana, the daughter of Russian General Valery Kapashin, went to the aggressor state.