The Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine revealed public procurement in the amount of 65 million. hryvnia, the executors of which were companies with Russian or Belarusian owners. This is reported by the press service of the BEB.
“BEB analysts found that after the start of a full-scale war, a number of enterprises with beneficiaries from Russia or Belarus not only participated in procurement at the expense of public funds, but also became their executors. That is, they sold goods or services,” the message says..
The amount of these egregious purchases amounted to about 65 million hryvnia.
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In general, the bureau's analysts analyzed about 400,000 public procurements.
BEB does not report the period when these purchases became possible.
At the same time, we recall that on February 28, the government allowed for the period of martial law to conclude contracts directly, without holding auctions in Prozorro.
The mandatory purchases in the Prozorro system, abolished in February, were returned by the Cabinet of Ministers at the end of June.
At the same time, as of February 24, 16,896 active companies were registered in the Unified State Register of Ukraine, among the owners, founders or ultimate beneficiaries of which there was at least one citizen or resident of the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus. Such data was reported by the open data platform Opendatabot, referring to USR data..
The Ministry of Justice is the keeper of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Formations.
ZN. UA wrote about a strange situation when, two months after the start of the war, namely on April 13, 2022, the Ministry of Justice issued an order to close about a dozen registers and databases. Among them is the EGR.
Neither the corresponding order nor any information on the website of the Ministry of Justice contained any intelligible explanation of this initiative.. According to the initiative of the ministry, administrators of unified and state registries were required to delete all published information in the form of open data.
The initiative lasted only six days.. Already on April 19, the Cabinet of Ministers issued Resolution No. 480, which restored, under certain conditions, access to the registers of the Ministry of Justice.
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Could the aforementioned purchases have been carried out during the period when the Ministry of Justice has already closed, and the Cabinet of Ministers has not yet restored access to registers, a question that law enforcement officers must answer. But the fact that there was a period when 16,896 companies with Russian founders, owners or participants appeared on the market without control and impersonal, this fact is beyond doubt.. The decision of the Cabinet of Ministers came into force on April 29.
For comparison, the situation with respect to companies operating in Russia was much more transparent.
It is known that since the full-scale invasion of the Russian army in Ukraine, almost 1,000 companies have announced their changes in Russia's plans..
Some of them announced a complete exit and curtailed their activities, others just suspended their business, or just abandoned their planned investments, some continue to work as usual.
Verify. whether an international company works with Russia, you can, for example, in the Boycott russia chat bot.
In addition, from the first days of the full-scale war, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor and founder of the Yale Institute of Executive Management, with a team of experts and students, has been monitoring companies operating/working in Russia..
The researchers divided the companies into five groups based on their statements and actions and publish them here, updating daily the list of companies that:.
Continue to operate in Russia without restrictions.
Continue operations but do not invest in development.
Reduce activity.
Suspend activities.
Stop operating in Russia.