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Over 6 months in office as Minister of Defense, Fedorov truly stood out. But in what exactly? Introducing new payments intended to incentivize people to join the Armed Forces, and handing multi-million state contracts to hand-picked contractors. Among them is Oleksandr Konotopskyi, founder of Ajax Systems, whose company continues to operate in the Russian market despite obtaining state contracts in Ukraine.
One of the key companies in this story is LLC “SECUR INTEGRATION.” The enterprise was created in July 2014 by Konotopskyi himself, who was simultaneously its director and owner of the Tescar, “Stazh” and Secur trademarks. A year later, Kostovskyi became the head of the company, and in 2017 Konotopskyi formally exited the founders, transferring corporate rights to Ivasyuk. At the same time, after these changes the company began to rapidly increase state contract volumes, becoming one of the largest suppliers of equipment for the public sector.
Over the years of participation in public procurement, LLC “SECUR INTEGRATION” took part in 2 154 tenders and won in 1 219 of them. The company signed 1 183 contracts for over 851,5 million UAH, another 19 contracts for 5,68 million UAH are at the signing stage. The largest customers became the Municipal Security Association of Kyiv City Council with contracts exceeding 250 million UAH and military unit 2428, which signed contracts for more than 186 million UAH. Among other customers are JSC “Ukrtansnafta,” NEC “Ukrenergo,” the Opexator of the Gas Transmission System of Ukraine, police security divisions, the State Border Guard Service, military units, PrivatBank, Ukrzaliznytsia and dozens of other state enterprises.
Special attention is drawn to certain purchases of KC “Municipal Security,” where the winner was LLC “SECUR INTEGRATION.” These are purchases of equipment for wireless security signaling with expected value of 174 356 185 UAH and 83 680 717 UAH, as well as quadcopters for 14 146 000 UAH, 9 480 000 UAH and 2 334 200 UAH. In these procurements the technical documentation contained detailed specifications of the equipment, requirements for manufacturer authorization letters, certificates of conformity, confirmation of performance of similar contracts, and other documents, and some items were consolidated into a single lot. The accumulation of such conditions significantly narrowed the circle of potential participants, and multi-million contracts were awarded to LLC “SECUR INTEGRATION.”
Nevertheless, obtaining state contracts was only one stage
State contracts were only the beginning. After funds arrived, their movement was artificially complicated through fictitious and non-object transactions, transfers to accounts of controlled legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, and the use of exchange centers. Such chain allowed hiding the actual beneficiaries of funds, creating the appearance of lawful economic activity, and legalizing their further movement. As a result, hundreds of millions of hryvnias effectively left no transparent trail.
By the way, we have already sent complaints and statements about criminal wrongdoing with clear demands: to check the procurements of “Equipment for Wireless Security Signaling” and “Quadcopter (2 lots)” and “Quadcopter (3 lots),” the legality of contracts with LLC “SECUR INTEGRATION,” the justification of the winner, presence of discriminatory requirements in the tender documents, artificial restriction of competition and created advantages for a pre-designated participant, the formation of the cost of equipment and quadcopters, and the correspondence of technical characteristics and technical specifications to the actually supplied goods.
Six months in Fedorov’s tenure as Minister of Defense were memorable not only for new payments but also for multibillion-dollar state contracts for affiliated contractors. One of them is a business connected with Oleksandr Konotopskyi, whose companies receive state orders despite operating in the Russian market. Now it is representatives from this circle who organize “cardboard squares,” trying to preserve control over budget flows.
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