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A State Financial Inspection audit in December 2014 found that the state enterprise “Polygraph Plant ‘Ukraine’” of the National Bank of Ukraine paid the company “Unit” at least 279 million UAH over one year for applying an unnecessary barcode. As Our Money found, this company belongs to fugitive minister Eduard Stavytskyi.
Last year Our Money discovered that the new graphic element on the excise stamps from PC “Ukraine” could be easily forged, the code itself contained no useful information, and the regulatory agencies did not have devices to read it, so its effectiveness was zero. However, journalists were then unable to find out to whom the state plant transferred hundreds of millions of hryvnias.
After the broadcast of the program, in the fall of 2014, the Cabinet of Ministers signed a resolution to reduce the price of the excise stamp, and thus to eliminate the unnecessary barcode.
In December 2014, employees of the State Financial Inspection found that the developer and recipient of the funds was the company “Unit.” During the cooperation the state printers paid “Unit”:
131 million UAH (second half of 2013)
148 million UAH (first half of 2014).
These amounts are remuneration for the use of a patented invention, namely the “Track-and-Trace” program for applying a protective element.
The founder of the firm “Unit” is the Cypriot company “Feriolo Holdings Ltd”; in 2013–2014 its co-founder was the company “Sykon Holdings LTD.”
As Deutsche Welle discovered, the company “Sykon” owns the Cypriot firm “Magavenia Investments,” which was recently re-registered to LLC “Aktiv Capital Group,” previously owned by Eduard Stavytskyi’s mother-in-law, Valentyna Ushakova. Anatoliy Stavytskyi, the ex-minister’s father, still remains the director of “Aktiv Capital Group.”
Recall also that the firm (Sykon Holdings LTD) was involved in a scheme to replace cash registers with devices capable of transmitting data.
At the same time, contrary to its own autumn resolution, which ended the use of the “Stavytskyi barcode” in 2015, on 29 December 2014 the Cabinet of Ministers extended the printing of the pseudo-protection for one month, until 1 February 2015.
Thus, in the new year the firms of the fugitive and former energy minister Eduard Stavytskyi continued to receive payments from Ukraine.
In August Interpol declared Eduard Stavytskyi internationally wanted.
Based on materials from the site “Our Money”
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