The Main Investigation Department of the National Police is investigating a large-scale corruption scheme involving the supply of low-quality dairy products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to preliminary estimates, the state's losses reached 600 million hryvnias.
This is reported by the publication 368.media.
According to data from criminal proceedings under Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code, since the summer of 2024, officials of contractors of the State Rear Operator (DOT) of the Ministry of Defense, acting through fictitious companies, systematically inflated prices for butter and hard cheese — sometimes by 2–3 times — and instead supplied spreads and cheese substitutes with non-dairy fats.
For example, with the market price of dairy products at 170 UAH/kg, “DOT” purchased it at 300–400 UAH/kg. The following companies were suppliers in these tenders:
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LLC "Asics Group" - contracts for UAH 4.5 million;
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LLC "Grand Prix LTD" - contract for UAH 762.3 million;
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"Contract Prodrezerv 5" LLC - a contract for UAH 728.6 million;
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LLC "Garna Strava" - contract for 1.3 billion UAH.
Producers and intermediaries were companies such as PP “Yarmilk”, LLC “Mykolaivmolprom”, LLC “MolGal”, LLC “DMSZ” and others. A special role was played by “Sambirsky Dairy Plant”, which supplied spreads to “Mykolaivmolprom” and “DMSZ”. Founders — Oleg Kotynsky, Valeriy Dudyak, Oleksandr Drobin, director — Roman Pylypchuk.
According to the investigation, they coordinated the process of embezzling budget funds, manipulated tax credits, and used fictitious documents for imported products.
Forensic examination confirmed that the products supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not comply with the labeling. The samples of “butter” contained 93–99% non-dairy fats, which directly violates the requirements of the State Standard of Ukraine for Technical and Scientific Production of Food. This means that the military actually received counterfeit products.
LLC "Mykolaivmolprom", LLC "DMSZ" Trading House and LLC "DMZ" entered fictitious data on the purchase of raw materials into the accounting records, despite the lack of real production capacities for the manufacture of such volumes of products.
It was also found that the Sambir Dairy Plant was actively used for asset preparation, resale of documents, and legalization of illegally obtained funds.
As a result, the state lost hundreds of millions of hryvnias that were supposed to go towards quality food for the military. Instead, soldiers received counterfeit products, and “cash-on-delivery” schemes continued to operate even during the war.
Under martial law, such crimes are not just corruption, but a direct undermining of the army's combat potential. The investigation is ongoing.
