“The other day, the AOP Supervisory Board reported the decision to extend the contract with Marina Bezrukova. Instead, the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov announced the appointment of Arsen Zhumadilov as director of AOP”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The G7 ambassadors are recommended to resolve the DPA situation as soon as possible and focus on continuing defense purchases. Construction with the principles of proper management and NATO recommendations is important for maintaining public confidence and international partners, ”the statement published on the social network K.
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On January 21, the AOC Supervisory Board announced that its members unanimously decided to extend the contract with Marina Bezruk. Thereafter, the journalist and member of the Public Anti -Corruption Council at MOU Tatiana Nikolaenko reported that the Ministry of Defense did not agree that the decision of the Supervisory Board, despite the fact that, according to her, IUU should not be agreed, reported journalists of the Radio Liberty investigations. .
On January 22, the Supervisory Board of the Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine concluded an additional agreement to a contract with the current director of the agency Marina Bezruk for 1 year.
As explained in the agency, in accordance with the Law “On Management of State Property”, the exclusive competence of the Supervisory Board is to approve the terms of the contract with the head.
But on January 24, the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov stated that the military department would not continue a contract with the Director of the Defense Procurement Agency Marina Bezruk, and promised to punish “all who failed work” on defense procurement. The Ministry of Defense also withdrew two representatives of the state from the Supervisory Board.
According to Umerov, the restart of the Supervisory Board will take place in the near future, and ASO will be appointed director Arsen Zhumadilov, who heads the “state operator”. Zhumadov himself confirmed that he agreed to become the new director of the defense agency.
The Defense Defense Defense Agency was launched in the summer of 2022. She is engaged in the purchase of weapons.
Marina Bezrukova headed AOP in early 2024.