The HACC refused to close the case of the former head of "Spetstechnoexport" Barbul

The HACC refused to close the case of the former head of "Spetstechnoexport" Barbul

The High Anti-Corruption Court refused to close the criminal proceedings on the charges against former executives of the state enterprise "Spetstechnoexport" Pavlo Barbul, Vladyslav Belsas, and other former officials for embezzlement. This decision was made by a panel of judges.

The defence attorney for the former head of the relevant department of Contract Department No. 1 of the state enterprise "Spetstechnoexport," Tymofiy Romanyuk, requested the case be closed due to the expiration of the investigation period after the notification of suspicion, based on paragraph 10, part 1, Article 284 of the Criminal Procedural Code. In his opinion, the investigation was continued by an unauthorized person, namely the head of the SAPO, although it should have been by an investigating judge. The panel refused to close the criminal proceedings No. 52017000000000889.

Let us recall that on January 24, 2020, the SAPO referred this case to court. In this case, NABU suspects the dismissed director of "Spetstechnoexport" Vladyslav Belbas, his predecessor Pavlo Barbul, former deputy director of "Spetstechnoexport" Volodymyr Mutsynov, former deputy head of the STE department Denys Panasenko, and former head of the "Spetstechnoexport" department Tymofiy Romanyuk. The indictment was scheduled to be considered on the merits.

Detectives found that in 2009, at the initiative of the leadership of "Spetstechnoexport," the state enterprise signed an agreement with the foreign company Global Marketing SPLTD for the support of one of the foreign economic contracts. Under this contract, "Spetstechnoexport" was supposed to supply military products manufactured by the state enterprise "Zavod 410 CA" for the Indian Ministry of Defence (Air Force Headquarters). The mediation of the non-resident was supposed to ensure the conclusion and further execution of the foreign economic contract, for which "Spetstechnoexport" paid $2.22 million. However, NABU detectives found that Global Marketing SPLTD did not provide the declared services, even though acts of work completion were signed between "Spetstechnoexport" and the foreign firm. Based on these acts, "Spetstechnoexport" transferred $2.2 million to Global Marketing SPLTD’s account in Noor Islamic Bank in the UAE. Consequently, the state enterprise incurred losses in this amount.