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💸🤷♂️No property, no money: NABU is investigating how ARMA lost 1,5 thousand tons of methanol stored at OPZ
Back in December 2024, the court transferred 1523,7 tons of technological methanol residues of Russian manufacture to ARMA. Another 1574 kilograms were in twelve barrels. All of this was located on the premises of the Odesa Port Plant, former ARMA deputy head Pavlo Velykorechanin said.
In April 2025, the Agency held a tender and sold the methanol for 57 million UAH. However, then Odesa Customs demanded an additional 45 million UAH for customs clearance of the methanol, and OPZ demanded 145 million UAH for its storage. The buyer, of course, refused to pay these extra charges. ARMA tried to hold another tender, but no one showed up, given the circumstances described above.
Ultimately, ARMA stopped even trying to sell the methanol. This spring, the agency finally proposed a solution: transfer the methanol to the state through compulsory alienation. The Ministry of Defense replied in two letters in May that it had no need for such property.
A few weeks later, a strike drone hit the tank holding this asset. 1523 tons of methanol ceased to exist. Now NABU is investigating negligence by the agency’s leadership.
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