State Space Agency enterprise in Dnipro suffered losses of UAH 3.2 million

State Space Agency enterprise in Dnipro suffered losses of UAH 3.2 million

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a scheme to seize funds from the State Space Agency and inflict losses on it amounting to more than 3 million hryvnia was exposed.

Throughout 2015-2016, the head of the state enterprise, founded by the state, is a key enterprise for the defense and security of the state and in the period from 2002 to 2018. belonged to the sphere of management of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (currently located in the sphere of management of the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine), entered into a conspiracy with the beneficial owner of a private company. According to the agreement concluded with the state enterprise, after receiving a 40% advance payment, the private company was supposed to supply the measuring device to the plant, but, despite the availability of the necessary goods and receipt of the advance payment, it did not do this. Later, based on an additional agreement, the contract was terminated, and the same private company won the tender for a new supplier. Under the new agreement, a private company supplied measuring instruments, but at inflated prices, which was accompanied by falsification of documents during customs procedures (in terms of declaring prices for instruments significantly higher than market prices) and during the tender (in terms of creating artificial competition by attracting formal and controlled bidder with a worse supply offer than that of a private company).

As a result of the implementation of this scheme, the state-owned enterprise overpaid UAH 2.3 million for the supplied products, and also suffered losses in the amount of UAH 853 thousand due to lost profits due to failure to take measures to apply penalties to the supplier. An interesting fact is that for the implementation of the scheme, the supplier company transferred 43.5 thousand euros to the foreign account of the company of the wife of a state enterprise official, registered in the Marshall Islands, under the guise of payment for agency services. It should be noted that during the pre-trial investigation, NABU and SAPO sent requests for international legal assistance to 12 foreign jurisdictions, in particular the Principality of Liechtenstein, Latvia and the Czech Republic. The answers received formed the basis of the prosecution’s evidence base.

To date, suspicion has been reported in the case to: the head of the State Prosecutor’s Office; beneficial owner and accountant of a private enterprise. The actions of all suspects are qualified under Part 5 of Art. 191, part 2 art. 364, part 2 art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.