The appeal left the former director of the Department of Public Procurement of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmelnytsky, suspected of embezzling funds for the purchase of low-quality bulletproof vests for the Ukrainian military, in custody and changed the size of the alternative bail, increasing it from 2.6 million to 40 million hryvnias. This was reported by the public organization "

The petition of the defense to cancel the arrest of Khmelnytsky was dismissed. The ex-official will be in custody until April 1, 2023.

If bail is posted, the suspect will have to comply with several obligations.. In particular, wear an electronic bracelet, hand over a passport and stay in Kyiv.

At the same time, the CPC noted that the prosecutor urged the court to appoint Khmelnytsky an alternative bail in the amount of UAH 107 million - he is suspected of embezzlement of just such an amount of money by the Security Service of Ukraine.

Earlier, the chairman of the board of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, Vitaly Shabunin, already noted that it was the SBU who reported the suspicion to the ex-director of the public procurement department of the Ministry of Defense.. 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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" At the same time, in this case, the petition was considered by the court at the location of the SBU as a body of pre-trial investigation,"

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They did not rule out that the authorities deliberately assigned the case to the Security Service so that it would not go to the VAKS. Moreover, registering the case with the “right authority” could give control over the course of the investigation and the possibility of withholding evidence from other law enforcement agencies..

" ), when the proceedings were illegally taken away from the jurisdiction of NABU, SAPO and VAKS,” summed up the Anti-Corruption Center.

Recall that Bohdan 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 "

Formerly 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 "