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Despite loud searches and investigations into inflated drone costs, VIRIY INDUSTRY not only stayed afloat — the team of the former minister Fedotov has a new financial project. Now they want to attract money not only through defense contracts but also by issuing bonds for 5 billion UAH, which will be bought by a specially created fund Inzhur MilTech. VIRIY INDUSTRY is registered in 10 October 2023, its charter capital amounts to only 100 thousand UAH, and new debt of 5 billion UAH in 50 thousand times exceeds the company's equity. And the question here is obvious: who and why would be willing to give such money to a company that has already drawn attention from the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR)?
The answer starts with Inzhur MilTech. The fund was launched in 13 August, and its first investment target was determined to be the VIRIY bonds, with a minimum contribution for an individual of 1 000 hryvnias. A person buys an investment certificate, the fund uses these funds to buy VIRIY bonds, after which the money passes to the issuer. In other words, a huge sum is formed from the money of many investors, but ends up concentrated in the papers of a single company.
Meanwhile, INJUR CAPITAL run by Andriy #Журжія acts as organizer and underwriter of the issue, and Inzhur MilTech is the bond purchaser. The bonds themselves are unsecured, their circulation period is three years, and the first-year rate is 25% per annum. If all 5 billion UAH are attracted, in the first year VIRIY would have to pay 1,25 billion UAH in interest. That is, the company does not just seek billions but must ensure a huge cash flow to service this debt.
And now — where could this cash flow come from. In 2025 year, VIRIY INDUSTRY signed contracts in the field of supplying drones for about 6,95 billion UAH, operations under which are currently being investigated by the DBR in criminal proceedings No. 42025000000000468. Within the proceedings, possible misappropriation of budget funds and their legalization are being investigated. On 7 July, searches were conducted at the company and at the place of residence of #Бабенка, during which about 32,14 million UAH in cash were seized, and by 4 August the National Securities and Stock Market Commission registered a bond issue for 5 billion UAH.
As a result, a chain emerges that requires maximum scrutiny: investors’ money → Inzhur MilTech → VIRIY bonds → funds of the issuer → coupon payments and redemption. In the materials of the appeal, it is explicitly required to determine sources of the fund’s asset formation, amounts raised, bond transactions, and final beneficiaries of the money. The authors argue that such a structure could potentially be used to launder funds, since one financial resource at different stages takes on different documentary forms—from investment to bond, and then coupon income and redemption.
The most interesting part — who is pushing the story about VIRIY bonds for 5 billion UAH: Horokhovskyi, Konotopskyi and Zhumadilov — the same people associated with supporting the “cardboard Maidan” in favor of the former defense minister Fedorov. Fedorov has already stepped away from affairs, but the financial conveyor around VIRIY continues to work: funds are funneled through InzhurMilTech, the fund buys bonds, and 5 billion UAH goes to the company.
The potential scheme is simple — stolen budget funds can be funneled into bonds under the guise of private investments, and then withdrawn from VIRIY back as legitimate interest and redemption of securities. Thus, with one shot you can give the stolen money a legal appearance and withdraw budget funds from the company through a financial instrument whose origin and ultimate beneficiaries are invisible to an external observer when placed privately.
We have already filed a complaint with controlling and law enforcement agencies with clear demands: verify the legality of issuing bonds for 5 billion UAH, establish the sources of funds for Inzhur MilTech, verify the reliability of information provided by VIRIY INDUSTRY for the registration of the issue, determine the actual flow of funds from investors to the fund and from the fund to the issuer, verify further use of attracted funds.
And here the main questions to the state: who will actually bring money into these bonds, where do they come from, and who ultimately will receive them? Will Inzhur MilTech become a financial intermediary through which funds enter VIRIY and then exit as legitimate interest? And most importantly — who will verify the origin of these funds and the ultimate recipients 5 billion UAH?
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