What the SBU managed to find out

As part of the investigation, it became known that the former head of one of the departments of the Ministry of Defense, while in office in the spring of 2022, signed an agreement with a private company to purchase wholesale batches of food products and supply them to the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

What is important to understand is that the cost of the product itself was artificially inflated by 41%, and the price of organizing its supply increased by 221%.

According to the case materials, the Defense Ministry official failed to properly verify the validity of the indicated amounts and did not approve the conclusion of the contract with the relevant departments of the defense ministry. This led to particularly large budget losses.

A former official of the Ministry of Defense was reported under suspicion under Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (embezzlement or appropriation of property through abuse of official position, committed on a particularly large scale).

The SBU draws attention to the fact that the issue of choosing a preventive measure for him is currently being resolved.

It is worth noting that the perpetrator faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.