“The Public Anti -Corruption Council found out that out of 15 contracts – 14 have additional agreements on extension of delivery terms”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The Council reminds that in 2024, information on the supply of defective ammunition from one of the state -owned enterprises began to appear in a number of media outlets – there were complaints about the quality of more than 20 military units, which were forced to return defective ammunition to the manufacturer.
The Public Anti -Corruption Council found that out of 15 contracts – 14 have additional agreements on extension of supply terms, some of the contracts contain up to three additional agreements on extension of terms only on the basis of a letter of the supplier, which indicates a systematic violation of the delivery time of critical nomenclature.
The Anti -Corruption Council draws attention that if the supplier (manufacturer) cannot put the required amount of ammunition in those deadlines and/or not the quality specified in the contract for some reason, it must receive and pay a large fine in theory.
But in this case, as it is noted, in the statement, no penalties for the terms of supply, nor for volume nor for quality were imposed, and some contracts are executed with the extension of time limits and already have acts of advertising (complaints) for the supply of poor quality products.
The Public Council emphasizes that, in addition to the obvious – the need for a full and timely provision of the army, there is a problem with the imposition of fines, namely the discretion by the procurement agency, which, in particular, may contain corruption risks.
“Gar MO believes that high -ranking officials of ammunition manufacturer … systematically violated the terms of contracts with the State Committee and supplied a poor critical nomenclature, threatening the defense capability of the state and the life of Ukrainian defenders. and the Armed Forces – the offenses provided for in Part 2 of Art. 367 (official negligence) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, ”the statement reads.
The Public Anti -Corruption Council (Gar) at the Ministry of Defense, because of these facts, appealed to the DBR and NABU.
AOP, as well as its preliminary management, did not respond to this statement by Gar.
In January, the Defense Ministry decided not to continue the contract with the director of AOP Marina Bezrukova.
“Unfortunately, in the last half of a year, instead of timely provision of ammunition army, we have received political games,” showers “of contracts,” drain “information (law enforcement officers will surely check these facts), PR inaction and failure to comply with the CRI subordinate by the IUU enterprise,” the Minister of Defense said.
Marina Bezrukova said that she did not understand why she was dissatisfied with her work in the ministry, direct claims, according to her, Umerov never expressed, on the contrary – he publicly supported her ideas.
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Last November, the Defense Ministry stated that the preliminary results of the investigation into the supply of low-quality mortar mines of 120mm caliber indicate possible causes of defects, including poor powder charges or violations of ammunition storage conditions, which led to their damage.