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How Fedorov’s circle and Ajax Systems seized state UAV procurements worth tens of billions of hryvnias
✅Our latest procedural victory. The Solomianskyi District Court of Kyiv satisfied our complaint, recognizing the inaction of officials of the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv and Kyiv region as unlawful. Investigative judge Korobenko S.V., by his ruling, obliged authorized SBU officials to immediately enter the information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.
📌The main suspects in the investigation are the chairman of the Supervisory Board of #Ajax Systems, Oleksandr #Конотопський, Mykhailo #Федоров, former Prime Minister and ex-Minister of Defense Denys #Шмигаль, and acting CEO of the state enterprise Ukrspetsexport Serhii #Первак. The case concerns the creation of an organized criminal group to ❗ monopolize state defense UAV procurements, tax evasion, legalization of proceeds, and the operation of schemes to circumvent anti-Russian sanctions.
The suspects organized a closed financial and commercial circuit to establish control over the defense UAV procurement market without using competitive procedures. 🔻 A key link in the scheme is the state enterprise “#Укроборонсервіс,” headed by Yevhen Hvozdaryov — former head of the LLC STRYM TECHNO. That private company, acting as a manufacturer and supplier for the defence-tech company #SkyFall Industries (coordinated by Konotopskyi), receives multi-million and billion-hryvnia contracts in a closed manner.
With an authorized capital of 100 thousand hryvnias, STRYM TECHNO LLC’s revenue in 2025 reached about 15,2 billion hryvnias, which constitutes almost 38% of the entire state UAV procurement market. 🤷♂️ At the same time, the market value of drones of the “Vampire” type is 8–10 thousand US dollars, while contract prices are classified under the guise of defense secrecy, creating conditions for their artificial inflation.
Funds received from the budget are redistributed through subcontracting agreements with related legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, and are also funneled abroad. A network of foreign jurisdictions is used for this, including the Cypriot Ajax Systems Cyprus Holdings Ltd and the Emirati Ajax Systems Trading DMCC. 💰 Through these structures they purchase imported dual‑use components at artificially inflated prices, accumulating profits in offshore accounts.
📌A separate threat to national security is the de facto continuation of Ajax Systems’ operations on the territory of the aggressor state. Despite statements about exiting the Russian market in 2022, the company’s products are sold in Russia via the Emirati entity and the Kazakh distributor TOO “Trading House Intant” under a “parallel import” scheme. Services continue to operate on Russian territory, and equipment works with Russian SIM cards without any blocking.
At our request, law enforcement agencies should verify the facts presented for possible criminal offenses under part 4 of article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Conducting economic activity in cooperation with the aggressor state), part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Embezzlement, misappropriation of property, or seizure of it through abuse of office), and part 3 of article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Legalization (laundering) of proceeds obtained by criminal means).
We will continue to maintain strict human-rights oversight of the investigation into this egregious case and will ensure that every official, minister, or businessman who profits from the war and the country’s defense capability receives the punishment they deserve.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Why the multimillionaire from the #Forbes list Oleksandr #Конотопський, the security systems of #Ajax and the drones of #SkyFall are Mykhailo #Федоров’s main wallet?
▫️How Fedorov’s lobbying turned into hundreds of millions in state orders for Konotopskyi’s company
▫️Oleksandr Konotopskyi and his Ajax Systems: traces of not only the products but also the businessman himself have been found in Russia
▫️Fedorov’s Ministry of Defense spent billions on defective mines and financing partners in Russia
▫️Finally, the sensational investigation regarding Konotopskyi — Fedorov’s wallet — announced 2 months ago
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