Thanos Technology. The Ministry of Defense laundered 17 billion
The Ministry of Defense's high-profile corruption case during the war involved 1.7 billion hryvnias being used to purchase military goods from Thanos Technology. The scandalous Office of the Prosecutor General employee, Igor Cherny, was assigned to investigate this, as revealed by 368.media's analysis of relevant court rulings.
During the invasion, from March 2 to March 18, the Ministry of Defense transferred 1.7 billion hryvnias to Thanos Technology for the purchase of military goods. The contractor bought foreign currency to pay non-residents for critical imports. However, the property's value was inflated, and foreign residents turned out to be fictitious.
The case file shows that the company's then director, Mykola Petrenko, embezzled UAH 43.16 million from March to May 2022, which was received as an advance payment under an agreement with the Ministry of Defense for the purchase of military goods. Violations were identified by the State Financial Monitoring Service. The money was transferred to the accounts of five individual entrepreneurs as payment for legal and consulting services. We covered this case in detail. You can read more about it at the link:
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However, we recently discovered new details of the case. It was revealed that the investigation was assigned to Igor Cherny, a prosecutor known for promptly freezing companies' funds through the courts in criminal investigations for tax evasion. We have already published materials about this prosecutor's work.
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In spite of the high-profile case, there are still no suspects, and the investigation has been ongoing for 8 months, yet Thanos Technology's accounts remain frozen.
A similar situation occurred in the investigation into corruption purchases by the Odessa City Hall during the war. This involves criminal proceedings No. 12022000000000435 under Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code, handled by the leading main investigation department of the National Police. It pertains to fraud in the Odessa City Operational Headquarters with the purchase of equipment and military uniforms for territorial defense units and volunteer formations. There are still no suspects in this case either.
Thus, we can conclude that the task of the prosecutor is not to ensure the inevitability of punishment, but, on the contrary, to create conditions for creating corruption conditions. The editors of 368.media appeal to all victims of the activities of the prosecutor to obtain additional facts of his corrupt activities.
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