The Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv has chosen a measure of restraint in the form of detention for the former director of the public procurement department of the Ministry of Defense, Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who is suspected of embezzlement on the purchase of low-quality bulletproof vests for the Ukrainian military. This was reported by the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General in a commentary to Ukrayinska Pravda..

At the same time, the person involved in the case was given the opportunity to post bail in order to be released.. The prosecutor's office did not disclose information about the amount of bail, but noted that they consider it too small, in connection with which they have already appealed the court's decision.

According to UP, we are talking about an alternative to making a deposit in the amount of 26 million hryvnias..

Earlier, Vitaliy Shabunin, the head of the board of the public organization Anti-Corruption Center, noted that it was the Security Service of Ukraine who informed the ex-director of the Department of Public Procurement of the Ministry of Defense Khmelnytsky about the suspicion.. Thus, the authorities may try to save the dismissed official from liability, while framing the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, since in fact its detectives should investigate this case.

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Before that, Khmelnytsky was fired from the Ministry of Defense amid a scandal over corrupt food purchases for the military - it was he who signed the contract, thanks to which they wanted to "

Recall that earlier ZN. UA has published an agreement between the Ministry of Defense on catering services for the military for 13 billion hryvnias, signed with a company with an authorized capital of a thousand hryvnias. That is, a "

Prices in the deal are twice the current retail prices in stores. How "