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Drones, pines for 3 million and body armor worth 27 million — what the State Audit Service “didn’t notice”
#Держаудитслужба should respond to the embezzlement of budget funds, but to all complaints and reports it consistently replies with form letters.
🔻A telling case is VYRIY.INDUSTRY — one of the key suppliers of UAVs and components to the Executive Committee of the Zhytomyr City Council, which misappropriated budget funds. Since 2024 the company has supplied “Molfar v1.2”, “JHONNY”, “JHONNY PRO”, “VYRIY PRO” and “VYRIY MAX” under numerous contracts for tens of millions of hryvnias. At the same time, the products were found to show signs of nonconformity with technical specifications and quality requirements, in particular due to components of unknown origin, lack of certification for certain elements, and discrepancies with the technical documentation.
However, these violations appear to be invisible to the State Audit Service itself. 🤷♂️In response to our complaint, auditors reminded us that back in 2024, during monitoring of procurement UA-2024-01-05-006032-a they had already identified violations and obliged the Executive Committee of the Zhytomyr City Council to terminate the contract. As for the facts we presented about purchases from “#ВИРІЙ INDUSTRY,” no specific measures were taken — the information was decided to be taken into account during future financial control and a referral was sent to the Zhytomyr office of the State Audit Service.
So violations had already been found, but new facts about multi-million deliveries were left “for later.”
🔻The second story concerns budget raiding in Kharkiv worth 120 million hryvnias. Under Mayor Ihor Terekhov, millions from the city budget are allocated through procurements showing signs of inflated prices and restricted competition — shelters, construction work and landscaping. Just four Pinea pine trees cost the budget over 3 million hryvnias, although their market value, according to the calculations provided, is many times lower. And in the budgets for shelters there are questions about the prices of building materials and the volumes of expenses.
However, the State Audit Service did not see a problem in the Kharkiv procurements worth millions of hryvnias. 🤷♂️In response to our complaint, auditors answered: three procurements had already been monitored, and it was too late to check the fourth — the contracting authority had already published the contract performance report. The remaining issues were forwarded to the Northeast Office to be taken into account during future financial control.
That is, the money has already been spent, contracts fulfilled, and the audit — sometime later.
🔻But that’s not all — we also see selective blindness in the procurements of DPOP “United Assault Brigade of the National Police ‘#Лють’.” In March 2025 the unit announced a procurement of body armor and military gear worth 27,67 million hryvnias, and the sole participant and winner was PVTP “Akropolis,” whose main activity is the production of travel bags, suitcases and civilian accessories. According to the provided data, the company did not have a confirmed production or technological base to manufacture body armor, and the contract raised questions about defining the subject of procurement and approving samples before the start of deliveries.
As usual, the State Audit Service again saw no grounds for immediate action. 🤷♂️In response to our complaint, auditors reported that procurement UA-2025-03-26-010937-a had already been monitored in April 2025, and the conclusion was published in Prozorro. The facts we cited about the purchase of body armor worth 27,67 million hryvnias were proposed to be “used” during future planned financial control activities.
Three stories — different contracting authorities, different procurements, but the same ending: budget millions are spent, questions remain, and the State Audit Service repeatedly postpones action until later. So how many more budget millions must slip past control before “future financial control” finally becomes real?
Materials on the topic:
▫️How 27,5 billion hryvnias were siphoned from the defense budget through VYRIY INDUSTRY
▫️Through schemes involving AOZ and the Ministry of Defense, weapons worth 45 billion hryvnias never reached the front
▫️How NABU’s agent Terekhov handed the city over to the Monaco Battalion
▫️For budget millions they are building Terekhov’s image as a superstar
▫️Rage on paper, millions in the shadows: how a combat unit became a front for corruption
▫️Tender schemes and fictitious appointments in DPOP “UAB ‘Lut’”: the role of the judiciary in blocking investigations
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