The National Anti -Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office reported suspicion of five persons, including the former head of the state company "Specialtechnoexport" Pavel Barbul, his expirer Anton Voronin, as well as Yevgeny Singaevsky, Alexei Barbul and Viktor Markelov.
According to the investigation, in the period from 2016 to 2019, this group of persons organized a scheme of seizure of funds of state defense enterprises - Dakhk "Artem", SE "Aviakon" and "Special Technoexport" - for a total amount of 3.78 million euros.
The investigation believes that the main organizer of the criminal scheme was Pavel Barbul, who at that time headed the Special Technoexport. It was he who concluded an agency agreement with Vakur SRO, which, according to NABU, did not provide any real services. Despite this, the companies have listed millions of euros under the guise of "agency reward".
In the future, the funds were withdrawn from the cash accounts and distributed among the participants of the scheme. Thus, fictitious documents became a cover for legalization of illegally obtained funds.
All five defendants were informed of suspicion of three articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
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Part 5 of Art. 191 - seizure of property by abuse of office in particularly large sizes,
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Part 3 of Art. 209 - Legalization (laundering) of income received by crime,
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Part 1 of Art. 366 - service forgery.
Three people - Pavel Barbul, Anton Voronin and Viktor Markelov - were wanted. The court also decided on the correspondence arrest of the suspects. Yevgeny Singayevsky was obliged to make a pledge of UAH 4 million with additional procedural responsibilities.
Special Technoexport is one of the leading state exporters of military and dual -purpose products. Cases related to theft in this area are particularly attention of law enforcement, as they harm not only the economy but also the country's defense capability.
