Back
Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
Groysman proposes an American for Ukroboronprom’s supervisory board instead of Hladkovsky’s people
The Cabinet of Ministers plans to appoint U.S. citizen Anthony Tether as a member of the supervisory board of the Ukroboronprom concern.
Such a draft resolution has been added to the government meeting agenda 31 January.
The biographical note states that Tether served in the 2001–2009 years as director of Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, where he was responsible for innovative research, development, and program management. In 1988–1992 years Tether worked as director of the National Intelligence Office in the apparatus of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Currently Dr. Tether is the founder and CEO of Anthony Tether & Partners, which provides companies and governments with advice on effectively implementing innovative projects.
Since August 2016 Tether has served as an advisor to Ukroboronprom CEO Roman Romanov. The American said that it was Romanov who invited him to cooperate.
Tether is now working on creating the Ukrainian equivalent of DARPA – an agency for defense research. According to him, he received permission for this work from the U.S. authorities.
The government quota on Ukroboronprom’s supervisory board is two representatives. One of them automatically becomes the deputy chair of the board. Currently the supervisory board includes three presidential representatives who were appointed back when Oleksandr Turchynov was acting president in March 2014. They are Reserve Lieutenant General Yaroslav Skalko, Head of the State Financial Monitoring Service Ihor Cherkaskyi, and KPI Rector Mykhailo Zgurovskyi. The latter was recently elected chair of the supervisory board, with Skalko becoming his deputy.
Last April, Ukrayinska Pravda published Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s order to appoint Deputy Minister of Economic Development Yurii Brovchenko and Deputy Minister of Defense Ihor Pavlovskyi as members of Ukroboronprom’s supervisory board. The order was submitted to the Ministry of Justice for legal review. At that time the outlet called Brovchenko and Pavlovskyi people who in their actions are oriented toward First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleg Hladkovsky – a business partner of President Petro Poroshenko.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau suspects Pavlovskyi of involvement in the embezzlement of 149 million UAH through fuel procurement schemes.
After Petro Poroshenko’s victory in the presidential election in 2014, Roman Romanov was appointed CEO of Ukroboronprom; before that he headed Poroshenko’s campaign office in Kherson region and was involved in the business of selling Hyundai cars, which at that time were produced by the Bohdan corporation of Oleg Hladkovsky, a co-owner of which Poroshenko had been earlier.
At the end of last year Groysman criticized Romanov’s work and announced he would submit to the president a proposal to dismiss Ukroboronprom’s CEO.
Source: Nashigroshi.org
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "У Гройсмана замість людей Гладковського пропонують американця в наглядову раду «Укроборонпром»". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: ANTIKOR.
