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The Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine carried out large-scale searches at the Brovary plant that manufactures aluminum profiles, which is owned by the companies LLC ALTEG and LLC BRAZ. Law enforcement officers recorded hundreds of millions of hryvnias in damages, discovered a large amount of unaccounted-for production, and uncovered a scheme of systematic tax evasion.
Informer reports, citing the outlet’s investigative journalism 190, that the tax frauds proved to be only the tip of the iceberg, since during the war the plants have become a key financial platform for siphoning off the defense budget. The enterprises provided systematic services for illegally converting funds into cash for firms that receive billion-hryvnia contracts to manufacture drones and military supplies.
The corruption scheme in the defense sector operates cynically: military sector customers transfer artificially inflated sums to the Brovary plant’s accounts non-cash, adding 30% “air” to the net cost of operations. After that Alteg takes its 16% for so-called “cash-out” services and coverage of financial risks, and the remaining 84% is returned to customers in the form of shadow “cash.” Investigators emphasize that the money that was supposed to go toward making weapons and drones as cheap as possible for the front simply dissolves in the pockets of the corrupt, and attempts to scrub the information space and delete materials from leading media only prove that far too much money is involved in the case.
According to the investigation, a group of associates of former Kyiv mayor Leonid Chernovetsky stands behind this shadow empire. The official ownership structure of LLC ALTEG shows that 100% of the capital belongs to JSC ZNVKIF “GENERAL INVESTMENTS,” through which the business is controlled by Viacheslav Suprunenko, current Kyiv City Council deputy Roman Yaroshenko, former MP Oleksandr Suprunenko, and former city council deputy Andriy Zayets. Documents are signed by the head of KUA ASVIO R.O. Melchenko, which proves the integration of the plant into the financial ecosystem of Asvio Bank, which the BES law enforcement officers consider a core for legitimizing and laundering billion-hryvnia cash-outs.
At the same time, the ownership structure of the affiliated giant LLC BRAZ is convoluted through Cypriot offshore companies, where the lion’s share of 90% of the capital is held by the firm ALUMETA GROUP LTD. That firm, in turn, belongs to ASVIO CAPITAL LTD and personally to Roman Yaroshenko, and the chain of figures again includes Viacheslav Suprunenko, Andriy Zayets, and their elderly relative Ivan Suprunenko. The ultimate beneficiaries of the plant, according to documents signed by director A.O. Reznik, are recorded as Viacheslav Suprunenko and Roman Yaroshenko, and the offshore structures set up through Limassol were created for a single purpose — to confuse the trail for tax authorities and the BES. In addition, the production facility in Brovary used to be the municipal enterprise “Kyiv Plant of Aluminum Building Structures,” which was once cynically removed from the ownership of the city community.
One of the most active participants in the scheme, journalists name LLC STELLAR JET, led by Iryna Terekh, who during the war suddenly became the “queen of defense” and reported over 1,77 billion hryvnias in net profit. On industry platforms the company presents itself as an IT startup and R&D bureau allegedly engaged in scientific research and drone development. “On paper it is extremely easy to inflate the cost of ‘unique code’ or an ‘experimental prototype’ by hundreds of millions of hryvnias, writing it off as ‘high technology,’” the investigators write, adding that real defense funds are converted into cash through the Brovary aluminum plant and spent on luxury Lexus LX cars and lavish forest estates for the organizers.
Despite visits from law enforcement, the shadow empire continues to operate, disguising financial fraud as “innovation.” The authors stress that STELLAR JET is only one cog in the system, and the editorial staff is currently conducting additional financial audits of a number of other enterprises, including LLC ALYUMAST, LLC STRIM TECHNO, LLC Sich Ukraine, LLC ALHYRA, LLC STOROZHUK, LLC Prometey-Plus, LLC FIRM “KATANA”, and LLC Gurzuf Defense. “The truth cannot be hidden by deleting news or by high-ranking offices,” the investigators conclude, promising to publish new facts soon.
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