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How did the philanthropist Sternenko withdraw 1 billion UAH in donations while Ukrainians were raising money for drones?
Behind the colorful facade of volunteering and the patriotic rhetoric of public figure Serhiy #Стерненко hides a carefully built system of financial abuse that affects the interests of the defense sector and state subsidies. The so-called cardboard Maidan he organized together with associates #Конотопський and #Гороховський serves not so much as a tool to support former minister #Федоров as an attempt to retain control over streams of state funds.
🤷♂️But the biggest questions concern the activities of the charity fund Spilnota Sternenko, through which more than one billion dollars intended to supply the army were withdrawn, while an initial audit of the financial statements has already revealed a discrepancy of almost 706 million hryvnias.
The property holdings of the volunteer’s family are striking in scale compared to official earnings. The civil partner N. Usatenko declared a monthly salary of 103 900 hryvnias, yet during 2023 the family became owners of two Volkswagen Tiguan crossovers with a combined market value of about 2,6 million hryvnias, and one of them was registered for only 70 thousand hryvnias.
At the same time, Sternenko’s father in 2024 purchased a plot of land of more than four hectares in the Odesa region, while close relatives of his civil partner continue to live in the territory of the Russian Federation and post photos from occupied Crimea.
👇The sources of financing for this level of lifestyle can be traced through crypto wallets linked to Sternenko’s activities, through which 1,366 million USDT passed. A significant portion of that sum went to exchanges and anonymous wallets, leaving nearly 600 thousand dollars of crypto donations without any public confirmation of final destination.
Particular attention is drawn to drone procurements, notably a batch of 1835 Enterprise FPV drones through the company Fly Systems. ❗️According to tax invoices, the real price of a single unit may have been lower than the figures in the fund’s reports by up to 10 thousand hryvnias, creating a difference of tens of millions of hryvnias. Fly Systems itself actively imports goods through Estonia, Poland, and Bulgaria using intermediaries, which caused the cost of certain components to be artificially marked up threefold compared to direct prices from Chinese manufacturers.
In addition to financial questions, the closing of Sternenko’s own mobilization issues raises many questions. Declared wanted in November 2024 by the Odesa Territorial Recruitment Center, he after a meeting with Oleksandr Syrskyi was fully removed from military registration for health reasons three days later due to alleged vision problems.
✅We have now filed official complaints and statements of criminal offense with law enforcement demanding a thorough check of the correspondence between declared income and assets, the legality of movements of charitable and cryptocurrency funds, the justification of drone prices, the activities of foreign intermediaries, possible abuses at JSC #Універсал Bank and LLC #Фінтех Bend, as well as the lawfulness of Sternenko’s exemption from mobilization.
Society can no longer be satisfied with appeals to volunteer status, because the documents and numbers clearly show personal enrichment at the expense of donations to the army.
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