The court extended the preventive measure for the Lviv businessman Ihor Hrynkevich , who became a figure in the case of providing low-quality clothes and underwear for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The decision to extend detention was made by the court on February 23, ensuring the preservation of the preventive measure until March 29 of this year. This was confirmed by Tetyana Sapyan, communications advisor of the State Bureau of Investigation.
At the previous stage, on February 22, the Kyiv Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of Ihor Grynkevich's lawyers against the decision of the Pechersk District Court regarding the application of a preventive measure to the suspect. According to this decision, Hrynkevich will be kept in custody with the possibility of bail in the amount of more than 429 million hryvnias.
The businessman Ihor Grynkevich was detained by the employees of the State Bureau of Investigation for an attempt to give a bribe of 500,000 dollars to one of the heads of the Bureau. His family companies, according to law enforcement officers, are suspected of manipulating purchases for the Ministry of Defense in the amount of 1.5 billion hryvnias. In addition, it became known that companies related to Hrynkevich supplied the Ministry of Defense with bulletproof vests and helmets at inflated prices.
The next day after that, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Vitaly Polovenko announced the termination of contracts with companies connected to Hrynkevich due to suspicions of financial fraud. On the same day, the regional council of the Lviv region also stopped cooperation with the charitable foundation owned by Hrynkevich.
The Hrynkevich family commented on the corruption scandal for the first time. Subsequently, the court seized the property and accounts of Hrynkevich's companies, and expert opinions confirmed that the products supplied by Hrynkevich's companies to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in 2023 do not meet quality requirements and are not suitable for use by the Armed Forces.
ARMA Asset Management Agency announced the discovery of luxury cars, real estate and weapons in the assets and transactions of the Hrynkevichs and their entourage. Ihor Hrynkevich and his accomplices are accused of embezzling particularly large amounts of budget funds.
Most of the budget funds received by the defendant from the Ministry of Defense were transferred to the benefit of other affiliated companies, the Asset Management Agency (ARMA) said. These operations, primarily, consisted in the provision or return of financial assistance and were carried out in risky, non-commercial ways. The remaining funds, which amounted to 40%, were directed to the implementation of government contracts and were transferred to the accounts of Turkish clothing manufacturers in Turkey.
Later, the Pechersk court announced the details of the detention of businessman Ihor Hrynkevich, and the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) reported on the current state of the case. On January 17, the SBI announced suspicion of members of a criminal organization whose leadership is attributed to Lviv businessman Ihor Grynkevich, who caused losses to the state of almost a billion hryvnias. The SBI also announced a wanted list for Roman Hrynkevich, one of the suspects in the case of the purchase of clothing for the Armed Forces.
On January 22, Roman Hrynkevich was detained in Odesa, and later the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv sent him to custody for 2 months with the possibility of bail of 500 million hryvnias. According to the SBI, Roman Hrynkevich was kept in Odessa without a mobile phone to avoid detection.
Later, Hrynkevich's daughter expressed her position regarding the corruption scandal, and the lawyers filed an appeal against the court's decision on a preventive measure. The appeal regarding the arrest of Ihor Hrynkevich was postponed for a month.
In the subsequent investigation of the SBI, the details of the Grynkevich case were announced, as well as the arrest of three apartments and a plot of land belonging to Roman Grynkevich Morozyuk's .
The mass media also reported on the possibility of co-conspirators in the Grynkevich case, among which two Lviv enterprises with a common director are indicated.
