Dniproges repair entrusted to a contractor who washes the money of the Russian Federation: FT investigation details

The Latvinets was harmful to the US Ministry of Finance, which imposed sanctions on it and arrested the company. Financial Times (FT) was written about the details of the fraud of the sub -entrepreneur and the reaction of PJSC "Ukrhydroenergo". FT investigators spoke about Latvian businessman Andrejs Bradens or Andrejs Carenoks, who conducted a business in London and created two companies involved in money laundering for the Russian Federation.

The name of this person is an updated sanction list, which appeared on the portal of the US Treasury on December 4. The list has a section that concerns "key members of the international money laundering network". The section is about a number of companies involved in the fraud, and two of them owns or manages Bradens (Pullman Global in the US and TGR Corporate Concierge Ltd in the United Kingdom).

In the spring of 2023, another tangent company won the tender for 800 million UAH in Ukraine, the article reads. The article states that Andrew Bradens includes a company that participated in the tender on the Prozorro portal. The company received $ 23 million. for the supply of cables and other components for the construction of underground protective structures on the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, damaged during Russian shelling.

"Awarding such a delicate state contract of a company that is now under sanctions for managing a multi -billion dollar money laundering network and used by Russian spies will probably be an inconvenient security problem for Kiev," journalists summed up. A tender was found on the Prozorro portal, which was reported by British journalists. It is a competition UA-2023-11-29-010782-A, which was opened in the fall of 2023 for an estimated amount of 914 145 153 UAH.

The competition was attended by two companies: Ukrainian participant of PJSC "Yuzdivtsi" and Turkish ALTAIR LOJISTIK Ve Ticaret Anonim şirketi. The Turkish company won, which suggested to put the necessary products for construction for the amount of 868 652 601 UAH. It follows from the agreement that the owner of this company is a citizen of Turkey Hamza Cerim. The FT investigators seems to have been given the information that the company is controlled by the Russian money launder.

The journalists wrote that they sought comments to Ukrhydroenergo. They were confirmed that the contract was indeed concluded, because at that time they were not aware of the harmful activity of the owner. They also stated that before the conclusion of the agreement, they checked whether the tender did not have contacts with the Russian Federation. There was also an appeal to Victor Kucher's Dniprovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant, the article is reported, but FT has not yet received.

On the portal, in the accounts on social networks "Ukrhydroenergo", as well as in the media, there are no public comments on the situation with $ 23 million, which the contractor whose owner is related to the Russian Federation received for the repair of Dniproges. It should be noted that the Russian Federation was on the Dniproges for three years of a full -scale invasion. One of the blows took place, for example, in October 2022, wrote the edition "Mirror of the Week".