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Engines worth 7 million UAH stolen from armored vehicle plant 20. Details
The police are investigating a criminal case regarding the alienation from SE “Zhytomyr Armored Vehicle Plant” (ZAVT) of 20 engines totaling 6,89 million UAH.
This was reported by the National Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine.
Materials of the case indicate that in early October 2014 the director of ZAVT ordered employees to remove from the immovable reserve warehouse of the mobilization stock 20 UTD-20 engines.
Officially, the engines were removed to perform scheduled maintenance for re-preservation. The equipment was transported to the diesel shop, where its operability was checked.
After that, the engines were taken out of the enterprise in an unknown direction without any permits. The police valued them at 6,89 million UAH.
When the engines were put on the search list, the director of ZAVT wrote a letter to the management of the Ukroboronprom concern stating that this equipment belongs to LLC NVC “Techimpex”.
As a result of the inspection, the police established that another 20 UTD-20 engines were delivered in November–December 2014 to the central base of armored vehicle property of military unit A0297 in Kyiv.
The investigator asked the court for permission to conduct an unscheduled inspection of ZAVT to carry out a counter-reconciliation between LLC NVC “Techimpex” and military unit A0297. The court granted the investigator’s motion.
UTD-20 diesel engines are installed on infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), airborne fighting vehicles (BMDs), and on self-propelled artillery systems.
The founders of LLC NVC “Techimpex” are Yurii Kravchenko, Ihor Perekhiv, and Yevhenii Vashchilin. The latter is the son of Viktor Vashchilin, who once headed the State Export Control Service. The Ministry of Defense sold small arms to this firm at undervalued prices.
In 2014, SE ZAVT was headed by Serhii Butenko. He is a co-founder of LLC TVF “Brek”, which is now trying to sue the plant for 7 tracked tractors. The firm claims it handed the vehicles to ZAVT without documents for repainting and participation in the parade on 9 May.
In addition, a criminal case is currently under investigation concerning a contract that had signs of being fictitious between SE ZAVT and the firm “Ukrvagonremtrans” worth 24,7 million UAH. Under that contract, the plant managed to pay 17,8 million UAH.
In July 2015, ZAVT was headed after a personnel competition by Oleksii Babych. He is the brother of Andrii Babych — deputy head of the office of the director of Ukroboronprom.
In February, the Lviv Region Court of Appeal left the former deputy director of the Zhytomyr Armored Vehicle Plant under arrest; he is suspected of embezzling state property and appropriating more than 23 million UAH.
By the way, the former director of the Lviv Armored Vehicle Plant is suspected of appropriating millions of UAH. The investigation suspects the former head of the state enterprise “Lviv Armored Vehicle Plant” that during December 2014 — January 2015, in collusion with others and using companies with signs of being fictitious, abusing his official position, he misappropriated state funds of the defense order totaling more than 2 million UAH.
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