“The Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court sent Yuriy Zbitnev, the former director of Lviv Arsenal LLC, to custody. The press service of the chamber writes about it. The Appeals Chamber overturned the previous decision of the VAKS judge on the refusal to extend the term of detention and passed a new decision – to take Zbitnev into custody with the possibility of paying a bail of 30 million hryvnias. He was taken”, — write on: ua.news
The Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court sent Yuriy Zbitnev, the former director of Lviv Arsenal LLC, to custody.
The press service of the chamber writes about it.
The Appeals Chamber overturned the previous decision of the VAKS judge on the refusal to extend the term of detention and passed a new decision – to take Zbitnev into custody with the possibility of paying a bail of 30 million hryvnias. He was taken into custody in the courtroom.
As a reminder, in November 2023, Hromadske released an investigation into the 2022 contract between the Ministry of Defense and Lviv Arsenal for the purchase of 100,000 mortar mines. The contract was for 1.3 billion hryvnias, and MOU paid almost 100% of the amount in advance. Ammunition was never delivered.
The actual scheme of the agreement, according to journalists, was as follows: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine — Lviv Arsenal (Ukraine) — Sevotech (Slovakia) — WDG (Croatia) — Elmech Sintermak (Croatia). Sevotech was to transfer the money to WDG, and WDG was to buy ammunition from Elmech. However, Elmech stated that it did not receive the money. In the end, the money allegedly remained with Sevotech.
On January 26, 2024, it became known that the Ministry of Defense won a lawsuit against Lviv Arsenal, which was supposed to supply 100,000 ammunition for mortars. “Lviv Arsenal” must pay the MOU UAH 1,340,465,698 in advance payment, UAH 90,683,623.06 in penalties, and UAH 96,734,638 in fines for non-delivery of mines. Within this case, the accounts and other movable and immovable property of the LLC were seized.
Within the framework of this case, Yuriy Zbitnev is suspected of appropriating someone else’s property and abusing his official position (Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Previously, the Special Prosecutors through the court charged the enterprise with over UAH 90 million for improper fulfillment of the terms of the state contract for the supply of products for the Armed Forces.
We would like to remind you that the land plots with an area of approximately 2 hectares returned to the ownership of the Ministry of Defense are located close to the administrative border of the city of Kyiv and have an approximate value of UAH 80 million. A military town is located on this land, part of the buildings of which were transferred to communal ownership, but the decision regarding the transfer of the land plot was not made and was not agreed upon.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine approved the procedure for organizing work with servicemen’s reports. The document specified how to draw up reports, register, review and report decisions.
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