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Fire show worth millions: how a 24-year-old businessman profits from drone cable while the state pays double the price
While the front lacks drones and the budget is drained by the war, companies with strange origin stories are earning millions on government contracts.
24-year-old #Бабенко Oleksii, who until recently performed fire shows, in just a few years became the owner of LLC “#ВИРІЙ INDUSTRY” (EDRPOU 45186404) — a company that supplies components for FPV drones to the public sector.
The biggest questions are not about Babenko’s career itself but about how the cost of the products paid for by the state is formed. Fiber-optic cable is imported into Ukraine for 7,5–8 dollars per kilometer, with exemptions from customs duties and VAT. ❗ Then the cable, without physically moving anywhere, is several times documentarily “resold” through LLC “AVTOTRANSLOGISTIKA”, MARKET LEADER S.R.O., and OGNIS TRADING LLC. In the end, “VYRIY INDUSTRY” buys the same cable already for 17,5–18 dollars per kilometer.
The difference of 💰9,5–10 dollars per kilometer is built into the cost of the drones, which are then sold, among others, under government contracts. The scheme also involves LLC “Agency for the Sale of Assets”, LLC “VICTORYSERVICE”, LLC “USDP” and LLC “MOONWELL MARKET” — operations to form component costs go through them.
✅We have been exposing Babenko’s activities for several months now — it was after our complaints that searches were conducted at his premises, but the case appears to have been swept under the rug again.
We filed a new complaint demanding verification of the cable’s real location at each stage, the grounds for the price increase, the application of customs benefits, and the inclusion of the inflated cost in the UAVs’ production cost.
In the meantime, we continue to collect outraged comments about the above. The post on this topic gathered as many as 50 thousand views, almost a thousand likes, 80 comments and 180 reposts.
❗This situation provokes rightful outrage among citizens:
What is going on, there are no limits to the audacity🫣😭😱
There aren’t even such prices for fiber in China
“Where is your conscience, where is your justice and where is your mind....”
While Ukrainian defenders need drones at the front and the budget bears million-dollar losses due to artificially inflated prices, the paper route of the cable continues to change its price, even though the actual goods don’t move.
The impunity of such schemes during wartime is a direct threat to the country’s defense capability.
Related materials:
▫️“Defense secret” as a shield to cover million-dollar schemes: how confidentiality hides inflated costs of components for FPV drones
▫️How through “VYRIY INDUSTRY” 27,5 billion UAH were taken from the defense budget. Who let billion-level flows pass outside financial monitoring?
▫️120 thousand drones, 100% prepayment and a network of firms: what is alleged against the scheme around Babenko
▫️How Babenko, after billions on drones, invented a new scheme with 5 billion UAH through bonds
▫️Why financial controllers remain silent: billion-level siphoning by LLC “VYRIY INDUSTRY” on FPV drones
▫️Another agent #СБУ: #Бабенко from #Вирій Industry settled matters with #ДБР through them
#нампишуть #оборона #тендери
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