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The path from PR man, ideologue, minister of digital affairs and defense of the greens to an “opposition” President. Who funds Fedorov, and whom does he really serve?
For seven years Mykhailo #Федоров remained a key figure of the “#СлугаНароду” team, actively building the power system, serving its interests and calmly enjoying the main privileges of an official. 🤷♂️The political comfort ended the moment he was stripped of the chairmanship of #Міноборони and access to multi-billion budgets. Immediately after that the official suddenly “woke up,” initiated street actions together with longtime business partners and started talking about elections, although earlier he had been fully satisfied with the state of affairs in the country.
Behind the attractive banner of digitalization and the “Diia” service there was always a concrete financial scheme. All commission transactions were carried out by the financial company “Yedynyi Prostir” of Ihor #Зотько with a meager statutory capital of 8 million UAH. In just 2023 year the service pushed through 💰2,06 billion UAH, of which almost 980 million UAH went through a mandatory commission of 1,5%. Zotko simultaneously worked as operating director of the gambling giant #PinUp and controlled online casinos through “Ukr Game Technology.”
No less dubious schemes accompanied the “Army of Drones” project. The company “Krion-M,” with a base capital of 765 UAH and a profile of furniture trading, received no-bid contracts from #Держспецзв totaling 1,5 billion UAH. Drones were purchased at inflated prices of 359–500 thousand UAH per unit, overpaying the budget by at least 600 million UAH.
📌At the same time, under the wing of the Ministry of Digital Affairs operated the KUNA crypto exchange of Mykhailo Chobanyan, which raised 42 million dollars through official resources and then quickly shut down amid an investigation into the embezzlement of 12 million dollars from the Aid For Ukraine fund.
Fedorov’s move to the Ministry of Defense only scaled up the abuses.
Within six months of his work the main beneficiaries of defense procurement became Oleksandr #Конотопський with the companies “#Аякс” and “#Скайфол” and Oleksii #Бабенко with “#Вирій Industry.” ❗️They each received over 10 billion UAH, and total funding of Konotop-based structures exceeded 40 billion UAH, allowing them to capture 38% of the UAV market. Purchases were made through closed procedures, and the drones were assembled from the cheapest Chinese parts.
In the same system served the deputy commander of the Air Forces #Єлізаров, whose fund “Folton” and affiliated firms “#Скрінтек”, “Lazar Indetriz”, “Skyplex”, “Airforge” and “L-Platform” imported components worth 5,9 billion UAH through the American intermediary KASER TRADE LLC. At the same time the firm “KTD-Jupiter” even passed off photos from Chinese websites as its own UAVs.
The financial rear in the struggle for influence was provided by co-owner of #monobank Oleg #Гороховський. While Fedorov remained in power, the key assets “#ФінтехБенд” and “Aisi_Disi_Processing” were moved into the offshore orbit of the Cypriot Crestline Limited and Nisets Limited, and the statutory capital of the Ukrainian company was reduced from 101 million UAH to 1,23 million UAH.
So Fedorov’s current activity is not a struggle for reforms, but a banal attempt to return lost financial flows to his sponsors.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Embezzlement of cryptocurrency donations and defense procurements: why are law enforcement agencies silent?
▫️How Fedorov tailored equipment technical specifications to his tender cartel.
▫️Fedorov’s bureaucratic trap: how the fight for control over defense procurement leaves the front without weapons.
▫️Billion-hryvnia defense procurements are given to “their own” while Zhumadilov remains in his chair.
▫️How 1,5 billion hryvnias were embezzled in AOZ for technical equipment of the army. Why is Zhumadilov still in office and not in prison?
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