Ukrainian TV channel "Gromadska Telebachennya" told about the purchase of Russian parts of the Ukrainian armored vehicles through foreign intermediaries.
according to the channel, the Ukrainian military used the services of the organization " Ukrinmash ", which got the track for military vehicles and Russian-built engines for armored personnel carriers of the Soviet production of the BTR-70 through the British firm Rion Assets Company LTD. Having a Bank account in Latvia and a citizen of Seychelles in the form of a Director "Ukrinmash" was governed by Ukrainians, and the document was produced at the Kiev address, reports " Ridus ".
the television channel managed to find out that the purchase of spare parts for armored vehicles was carried out at inflated prices. So, for the purchase of twenty engines of the Russian production of "Ukrinmash" spent 160 thousand Dollars to 8 thousand Per unit, whereas the average cost of this product is only 3 thousand Dollars. So, profit from the corruption scheme could reach 167%. In addition to the exorbitant price tag, the purchase of military items from " country-aggressor ", as they call the Russian Federation in Kiev, is a cause for political scandal." The fact that the Ukrainian state-owned defense Company bought Russian components through London already suspicious on account of the purity of such transactions "? concludes the journalist of " Gromadske Telebachennya ". The program has been published on YouTube as a whole, the scheme of deliveries to Ukraine of Russian spare parts tells the second story (12: 30). Remember, in the summer of 2014 the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko forbade any cooperation with Russia in military-technical sphere. For example, Poroshenko signed a decree, which prohibited the export to the Russian Federation subjects of military and dual-use to military end use Russia, except for space technology, which is used for research and use of space to good use in international space projects.

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