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How Mitrokhin received billions from the Ministry of Defense and supplied defective goods to the front. How much the defense cartel profited from the war and who received these funds?
For some, war is destruction, and for others — a way to get ahead. Since 2022, businessman Oleg #Мітрохін became a key supplier for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, concentrating billions of budget hryvnias in his hands. Despite access to multi‑billion flows, the businessman constantly criticizes the state, even though his business receives huge defense contracts.
📌Behind #МІК stands an entire network of companies — #ПАКОПТТОРГ, #ЕКВІПТОРГ, #ДЕФЕНС, #САЛАЦІЯ, #СУПЕРМІК, #Суперформ, #Югсталь. And here’s where it gets most interesting. The companies shared premises, employees, financial operations, and used the same IP addresses when dealing with the tax service, electronic cabinets, and participating in tenders.
Interest‑free financial assistance moved between them, and some financial transactions occurred in sync down to the minute. 25 December 2025 the AMCU found the actions of MIK and PAKOPTTO RAH to be anticompetitive coordinated actions and fined the companies 30 million and 6,3 million UAH.
23 December 2024 #Міноборони put winter wind‑and‑moisture‑protective jackets up for tender at 122,86 million UAH. PAKOPTTO RAH offered 109,69 million UAH, but on 7 January 2025 their bid was rejected due to a bank guarantee. The next day the winner was MIK with a price of 121,98 million UAH, and on 17 January the company received the contract. 🤷♂️The difference between the cheaper offer and the contract price was 12,29 million UAH.
Even more interesting — the procurement of 35 thousand covers for body armor with an expected cost of 473,98 million UAH.
🔻NEXTGEN lowered the price to 320 074 990 UAH,
🔻PAKOPTTO RAH offered 320 075 000 UAH — exactly 10 hryvnias more expensive.
NEXTGEN was declared the winner, but on 14 January 2025 the procurement was canceled due to a license requirement that had not been in the initial conditions. As a result, the participant who offered a price more than 153 million UAH below the expected amount did not receive the contract.
At the same time, complaints arose about the products supplied to the military. Reference samples might pass tests with certain characteristics, while series production used cheaper materials with reduced density, water resistance, fire resistance, and strength. Ballistic items showed reductions in layers of Kevlar and UHMWPE, deviations from manufacturing technology, and noncompliance with the declared protection class.
For products received by the Ukrainian army, the difference between a tested sample and the actual batch can be of decisive importance.
Most strikingly, the former Minister of Defense — #Федорова, and the ex‑director of the state enterprise “#АОЗ” — #Жумаділов, were all satisfied: low‑quality items went to the front as high‑grade, kickbacks from deals lined pockets, and Mitrokhin and his cartel gained momentum. Only after Fedorov’s resignation and Zhumadilov’s dismissal did the first contract terminations begin — but what does this show if Mitrokhin can enter other tenders through other companies.
And again, issues of quality and inflated product cost will not be decisive.
✅Regarding the criminal group led by Mitrokhin, we sent 4 information requests and 4 complaints, reaching more than 500 recipients. Officials remain silent about the violations, take no measures, while Mitrokhin rewrites companies, changes their names, introduces new founders, and connects ties in NABU in order to stay close to the multi‑billion defense budget.
The system is silent — business reconfigures, companies change their signs, and budgetary flows do not disappear.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Leak of a defense order during the war: how AOZ officials and Mitrokhin and Yevtushenko profit from the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▫️How the Ministry of Defense leaked 1,3 billion on ammunition, tents, and equipment to Mitrokhin’s cartel. Who will be held accountable for the raiding of the defense industry during the war?
▫️How Mitrokhin, heir to Hrynkevych’s schemes, together with AOZ of Zhumadilov stole billions in defense spending
▫️The Ministry of Defense “noticed” the failure to deliver ammunition worth 300 million only after the personnel purges
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