Tomorrow, the court will decide on the preventive measures for the faggots detained for kickbacks on drones and rebas for the military.
There will be sumptuous quotes about the margin that the thieves shoved into the purchase price.
They say they don't care if the drone is made of wicker and branches, the main thing is that the organizers of the scam get 30%.
I think the military will be very interested to hear the "servant of the people" Kuznetsov and his friend Serhiy Gaidai, the former head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, who recently headed the Mukachevo District State Administration.
Just imagine, the Cabinet of Ministers abruptly met on Saturday(!) to urgently dismiss Haidai from his post. And this is despite the fact that Haidai is an old friend of Yermak's. The story is so toxic that the Office decided to cut off the loose ends.
How Gaidai and Kuznetsov organized the scam. They had to find military officers who would agree to receive money from the local government as a subvention for the purchase of drones and spend it on drones from a manufacturer they would be pointed to at a specified price. They also needed to find drone manufacturers who would agree to document their drones at an inflated price, and when the entire margin could not be squeezed in, they would deteriorate the quality of the components (cheap instead of good).
Among the military, we managed to document one of the representatives of the National Guard in the story of UAH 10 million. But in reality, there are more different contracts.
Among the drone manufacturers, we found Akopters, which agreed to cooperate. According to Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, which was also confirmed by my source, this office is controlled by a businessman from Zaporizhzhia, Vladyslav Marchenko. He and his brother Marchenko are so well-known in Zaporizhzhia that a few years ago they had a reputation as "junior partners" of Rostyslav Shurma. This is the same former deputy of Yermak, against whom NABU opened a corruption case during the invasion, he was fired from the OP and fled to Germany. Where the local police recently conducted a search at his place at the request of the NABU.
You may also know the Marchenko brothers from last year's Okhmatdyt scandal. It was a company from Marko Marchenko's orbit that was mysteriously chosen as the winner of a scandalous tender with super inflated prices worth more than UAH 300 million. It was only after the publicity that the procurement was re-tendered on much better terms for the state and philanthropists who donated money to rebuild the hospital.
Yes. For me, this story is one of the most illustrative of the scavengers who pick up multimillion-dollar "crumbs" after multibillion-dollar shenanigans by the highest authorities.
And yes. 30% of the recorded rollback is quite possibly not true. Because there is no data on the actual number of drones delivered. According to the documents, there could be a thousand, which was paid for. In fact, it could have been several hundred.
That is, money could pay for air. And this is, unfortunately, a story that I have heard not only about these Zaporizhzhia residents.
Yuriy Nikolov
