From: New Voice of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Contracts for supplying wood for fortifications in Kharkiv Oblast, worth 366 million hryvnias ($9.2 million), raise significant concerns, Martyna Bohuslavets, head of the Anti-Corruption Center Mezha, told Radio NV on May 14.
According to Mezha’s findings based on open-source data, contracts were signed with companies that appear to be fictitious. Tens of millions of hryvnias were transferred to a private entrepreneur whose owner, Ihor Chaus, has a criminal record for stealing a bottle of whiskey from a supermarket and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service, said the anti-graft activist.
“Or when such millions are withdrawn to companies where the owner, while intoxicated, committed domestic violence against her mother or was deprived of parental rights,” she added. “In other words, you can roughly understand what kind of people we are talking about – even without a legal background. And it is precisely for this contingent that these firms were created.”
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