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Million-dollar schemes protected by the defense: how fictitious experience and swapping film became the basis for the Ministry of Defense's billion-hryvnia contracts
A large-scale corruption scheme in the field of defense procurement has come into our focus, involving officials of the SE “Defense Procurement Agency” #АОЗ headed by A.K. #Жумаділов and related structures. The key beneficiary of the illicit activity was LLC “LIDER – NTZ,” which until November 2025 carried the name LLC “TEMP-2000,” and behind them stands the family of #Євтушенко.
📌To artificially create tender experience for participating in the bids, the organizers involved a controlled company, LLC “TK ALLIANCE IDEAL” from Brovary, which on all documents is a producer of ordinary polyethylene film, not ballistic materials.
The main evidence of the crime is the absurd chronology. The scheme participants prepared a fictitious supply contract No. 10/11-1, dated 10 November 2025, which supposedly confirmed production capacities. ❗️However, LLC “LIDER – NTZ” received an official license to manufacture personal protective equipment only on 15 December 2025.
According to the Civil Code of Ukraine, any activity without a license is void, and concluding such contracts retroactively indicates direct forgery and the absence of special legal capacity at that time. To simulate a production chain, the scheme introduced supplies of raw materials from the company TARGUS, substituting ordinary packaging polyethylene for materials for ballistic protection.
🤷♂️Using this fake background, the company won a tender to supply 40 000 combat helmets model Kaska-2M for the amount of 295 840 000 hryvnias. The state administration signed contract No. RM-10077-VDK-26 dated 15 January 2026 despite the fact that the price of one helmet was artificially inflated to 7 396 hryvnias excluding VAT. The market price of similar items at that time ranged from 4 800 hryvnias, which led to direct price inflation and losses to the state of 95 840 000 hryvnias.
A procedural anomaly is also telling: during the bidding, the customer 31 December 2025 issued a requirement to correct discrepancies due to the absence of primary documents, and already after 22 minutes on a holiday evening declared the company the winner, which finally confirms the prior collusion.
🔻A similar scenario was implemented in April 2026 during the procurement of 2 000 modular body armor Korsar M3mp-6 under contract No. RM-10638-VDK-26 with a total value of 32 800 000 hryvnias. The tender documentation was written for a specific manufacturer with discriminatory requirements concerning unique conclusions from the Ministry of Defense and last year's revenue, which was prepared using previous excess profits.
Among five participants, the victory was again given to a firm with a dubious past, completely ignoring their lack of a real production base to simultaneously supply products to four regions of Ukraine.
We continue to monitor the investigation of this cynical scheme of embezzling budget funds during the war.
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