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The SBU checks the involvement of the military enlistment office in the illegal ...

Entrepreneur from Zaporizhzhya sold the Armed Forces of defeated vests for 6 million UAH - SBU (photo)

The SBU checks the involvement of the military enlistment office in the illegal scheme. The suspect faces 12 years in prison. An entrepreneur from Zaporizhzhya region, who has put in the Armed Forces of Ukraine defects for 6 million hryvnias, threatens 12 years of imprisonment. This was reported by the SBU press service.

The department said that the organizers of the scheme were put in one of the military units of the region 350 bulletproof vests, whose technical characteristics were not stated, so they are dangerous for use in combat conditions. In this way, the persons disrupted to the execution of a defense order for almost 6 million hryvnias. The whole party was seized and sent back to the manufacturer to eliminate the flaws.

According to the investigation, the scheme is involved in the organization of the director of a local commercial firm, who signed a contract with representatives of the regional military enlistment office for the delivery of a wholesale batch of bulletproof vests. At the same time, their value was artificially inflated, and the quality did not correspond to the State Standard. The director of the enterprise was informed about the suspicion under Part 5 of Art.

191 (appropriation, misappropriation of property or seizure by abuse of office) and under Part 1 of Art. 209 (legalization (laundering) of property obtained). Currently, the indictment on the person being sent to court. Law enforcement officers check the involvement of officials of the military enlistment office in the illegal scheme.

We will remind, on June 16 in the SBU they stated that they exposed the former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine and the former head of the Department of State Procurement of the Ministry of Defense at the appropriation of more than UAH 1 billion hryvnias allocated for the purchase of winter form and bulletproof commemorations.