The Main Investigation Department of the National Police is investigating a large -scale corruption scheme for the supply of poor quality dairy products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to preliminary estimates, the losses of the state reached UAH 600 million.
About it writes edition 368.Media.
According to the criminal proceedings under Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code, since the summer of 2024, the officials of the contractors of the State Taire Operator (DOT) of the Ministry of Defense, acting through fictitious companies, have systematically inflated prices for butter and hard cheese - in some places 2-3 times - and supplied them instead, and cheese and cheese surrogates.
For example, at the market price of dairy products in 170 UAH/kg, "DOT" purchased it at 300-400 UAH/kg. Suppliers in these tenders have become companies:
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LLC "Asix Group" - contracts for UAH 4.5 million;
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Grandri LTD LLC is a contract for UAH 762.3 million;
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LLC "CONTRACT OF PROSPORTS 5" - contract for UAH 728.6 million;
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Beautiful dish LLC is a contract for UAH 1.3 billion.
Manufacturers and intermediaries were companies like PE "Yarmilk", LLC "Mykolaivmolprom", LLC "Molgal", LLC "DMSZ" and others. A special role was played by the "Sambirsky" dairy plant, which was supplied to "Mykolaivmolprom" and "DMSZ". The founders are Oleg Kotinsky, Valery Dudyak, Alexander Drobin, Director - Roman Pylypchuk.
According to the investigation, they coordinated the process of discussing budgetary funds, manipulated a tax credit and used fictitious documents for imported products.
The forensic examination showed that products that came to the Armed Forces did not comply with the marking. Oil samples found 93-99% of non -dairy fats, which directly violates the requirements of DSTU. This means that the military actually received fakes.
LLC "Nikolaevmolprom", LLC TD "DMSZ" and LLC "DMZ" entered into accounting fictitious data on the purchase of raw materials, despite the lack of real production capacities for the manufacture of such volumes of products.
It was also found that Sambir dairy was actively used to discuss assets, resale documents and legalize illegally received funds.
As a result, the state lost hundreds of millions of hryvnias that had to go for quality food for the military. Instead, the soldiers received counterfeit products, and the "bargain" schemes continued to work even during the war.
In the context of martial law, such crimes are not just corruption, but a direct undermining the combat potential of the army. The investigation is ongoing.
