“Interesi Base” is involved in money laundering for the Ministry of Justice
The State Enterprise “National Information Systems” of the Ministry of Justice awarded “Interesi Base” a contract to upgrade the software of the “Unified state electronic system of e-notaries” for UAH 20 million as a result of a tender on January 25. This information comes from a report.Prozorro“, they write Our Money.
By April, they need to develop an administration subsystem (Unified Register of Powers of Attorney / Inheritance Register / Unified Register of Special Forms of Notarial Documents) for UAH 6 million, in April-May – a subsystem “Integration with Information Registers” for UAH 6 million, in June-August – a subsystem ” Electronic register of notarial actions” for UAH 8 million. They are also providing warranty technical support for the upgraded software for one year.
The largest portion of UAH 8.17 million is allocated to third parties for the development of registries, interface forms, server methods, and external APIs, according to the estimate. VAT accounts for UAH 3.33 million, wages – UAH 3.33 million, profit – UAH 2.77 million, overhead costs – UAH 1.66 million. The remaining UAH 732,000 are allocated for social events.
Salaries for the project range from UAH 115,000 for a tester to UAH 349,000 for a lead software engineer, divided over seven months, ranging from 16 thousand UAH to 50 thousand UAH per month.
The company secured the contract without competition as no other companies participated in the auction. In 2021, they also won the auction for the development of the Unified Register of Powers of Attorney, the Inheritance Register, and the Unified Register of Special Forms of Notarial Documents for 16 million UAH. 16 million UAH. This was the first stage implementation e-notary, which should be completed before the end of 2023.
The founder of the IT company “Interesi Base” from Vishnevoe in the Kyiv region is the Cypriot offshore “Interesi Venche Ltd” (Intecracy Venture Ltd), and the ultimate beneficiary through it is Mikhail Vigovsky from Kiev. It is managed by Alexander Rossol, and is part of the Intecracy Group consortium along with Aikyuzhn IT, Softline IT, and other IT companies.
Since 2016, the company has won tenders totaling UAH 162 million, with most of them from NAIS. They were implicated with Aikyuzhn IT in a criminal case involving the procurement of services by NAIS according to state registers.
Furthermore, NABU is investigating the embezzlement of the military system amounting to 600 million. The SBU has identified the firms “Interesi Base” and “Aikyuzhn IT” as being associated with “Ukrainian Electronics” and “Everest Limited”. The latter company was supposed to develop the Kolokol-AS Unified Automated Control System for the Armed Forces of Ukraine based on the Interest Base software.
Acuity IT and Interest Base are mentioned in a 2020 police criminal case against officials from various governments, institutions, and businesses. These officials did not create an integrated information security system (CSIS) using information security tools that have passed the state examination when ordering services from multiple companies.
Anna Soroka, translation Skeleton.Info
