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How Mitrokhin’s defense cartel left the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a billion and continues profiteering at the front. For how many thousands did judges write off billion-level debts — to the monopolists?
Another large-scale scheme around procurements for the Armed Forces shows how state funds flow into the pockets of profiteers instead of supplying the front. ❗️This time at the center of the high-profile investigation is the company #УКРТАК, linked to Severion #Дангадзе, who once received a suspended sentence in a case about an attempted seizure of power.
The formal owner of the enterprise, Olena Alekseieva, likely his mother, is registered at the same Donetsk address as him and has recorded trips to the Russian Federation. Dangadze himself aggressively tries to seize the defense market and even threatens competitors with physical violence.
Despite systematic contract failures, the state enterprises #АОЗ and #ДОТ under the leadership of #Жумаділов continued to conclude billion-hryvnia deals with UKRTAK with advance payments. In May 2024 the company received a direct contract without an auction to supply modular body armor at a price of 30 780 hryvnias per unit. 🤷♂️The production chain was effectively divided with the cartel #Мітрохін, involving the firms Lider-Trading, Tes3 and Pivnich-Specodiah, some of which have already appeared in AMCU rulings.
In addition, in October 2024 at the Orlivka customs checkpoint a truck for UKRTAK was stopped with a double set of documents, where the cost of the Turkish goods was artificially inflated through Bulgarian intermediaries PRICE PARTNERS and STRONG SALES, which allowed more than 1,4 billion hryvnias to be siphoned off and the tax credit to be overstated.
The situation culminated in Dangadze’s statement about the complete destruction of the factory and warehouses in the frontline region as a result of Russian strikes. The declared capacity of 20 thousand body armor plates per month did not match actual deliveries, which barely reached 5 thousand, and no one properly verified the actual losses.
Later AOZ and the State Emergency Service went to court, but because the property was destroyed the defendants walked away unscathed. 👇Of nine AOZ lawsuits totaling 812 million hryvnias, courts have already written off 275 million, another 527 million remain under consideration, and in one case of 284 million hryvnias only 9 million was awarded.
Even failure to fulfill a contract for 364 million hryvnias and a loss of 530 million hryvnias in the first half of 2025 did not prevent UKRTAK from receiving new multimillion orders.
✅We have already sent official inquiries and complaints to law enforcement demanding internal investigations into the actions of AOZ and DOT officials, verification of the legality of judicial write-offs of hundreds of millions of hryvnias, and bringing those responsible to account.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Mitrokhin and Dangadze join forces: law enforcement, NABU and the courts change the rules toward company bankruptcies and new fines for schemers
▫️How the Georgian mafia, through corrupt courts, inflicted losses of 1 billion hryvnias on the Armed Forces. For how little did the judiciary bend to the businessmen who abandoned the military at the front?
▫️Billion-hryvnia lawsuits against army suppliers: how courts and public procurement become a field for maneuvering
▫️Judge Marchenko stalls a case over 184 million hryvnias: while the army waits for fines, the judge buys a Touareg for 2 million hryvnias
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