“In September 2024, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umyerov, planned to fire the director of the Defense Procurement Agency, Maryna Bezrukova, and appoint Oleksandr Ustinov, a People’s Deputy from the “Voice” party, to this position.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
In September 2024, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umyerov, planned to fire the director of the Defense Procurement Agency, Maryna Bezrukova, and appoint Oleksandr Ustinov, a People’s Deputy from the “Voice” party, to this position.
Source: the message of the executive director of the NGO “Anti-corruption Center” Daria Kaleniuk on Facebook, Ustinov in the comments of the UP
Kalenyuk direct speech: “I have to write about this, because it has already become public. Just as Oleksandra Ustinova’s position on the need to restart the Defense Procurement Agency, whose supervisory board will decide these days who will be the director of the main defense procurement agency of Ukraine in two weeks, has also become public.
At the end of September 2024 – before the creation of the independent supervisory board of AOZ – Umyerov wanted to appoint Oleksandr Ustinov as the director of AOZ instead of Maryna Bezrukova.
Together with Vitaly Shabunin, I was a participant in the conversation where the minister under Oleksandr announced to us his decision to fire both Maryna Bezrukova and his deputy Dmytro Klimenkov, because “they are not doing well.” Instead, he proposed to appoint Ustinov as the director of AOZ. For me, such an offer from the minister and the willingness of Sasha, my former colleague, to accept it, were a shock.”
Details: In his post, Kaleniuk says that “in accordance with the rules of corporate governance, an independent supervisory board must first be appointed at AOZ, which must decide whether the current director is doing well or not, and elect and appoint a new director, if there are grounds for it.” .
She wrote her message after Ustinova’s long blog criticizing the current management of the AOZ and its work was published on January 14.
“As much as it is a shame to admit it, but the agency in its current leadership cannot cope with the task assigned to it. Instead of contracts, there are constant scandals and merging of information, names of companies, which are often connected with foreign special services and lead us to The whole world will know the prices at which we buy and from whom. This is unacceptable in wartime, because it is nothing it cannot be called anything other than playing with the enemy,” Ustinova wrote.
She also hopes that “a supervisory board has already been created, which, I hope, will find out what is not working and why.”
In a comment, UP Ustinova said that in the fall of 2024 there were two candidates for the position of director of the AOZ – she and Deputy Director of the Defense Procurement Agency Artem Sytnyk.
Prehistory:
- In her column on UP, the current director Bezrukova, summing up the work of the Agency in 2024, reported that in December the Supervisory Board of the AOZ, which included independent members Kateryna Kuznetsova, Lukash Stolyarsky, Patrik Auroy, as well as representatives from the state Taras Chmut and Yuriy Dzhigir
- Bezrukova became the head of the Defense Procurement Agency in January 2024.