251 million UAH allocated for body armor for the armed forces was wasted, but the army did not receive. VAKS sentenced the three involved in the case to 7-10 years in prison.
SAP does not name names, but the Anti-Corruption Center writes that they are Andrei Kudin, the former head of Ukrpatent, Olesya Savchuk, a former official at the Ministry of Economy, and Andrei Chornoi, the head of the "Soul of Mercy" charity.
Separately, the court allegedly ordered Kudin and a former official at the Ministry of Economy to jointly return more than UAH 296 million to the state.
In May and June 2022, almost UAH 251 million was transferred from the Ukrpatent account to the account of a charity organization, allegedly for the purchase of bulletproof vests. For this purpose, false documents were used. The money was then transferred through a series of fictitious companies and transferred to cash.
Photo: The Anti-Corruption Center.