NABU and SAP Charge Ex-Deputy Chief of General Staff

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office have reported suspicions to former Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Radian Tymoshenko, and former Chief of the Signal Corps of the Armed Forces, Volodymyr Rapko, in the case of the automated system "Dzvin". The press services of the bodies reported this, but did not name the names of the defendants.

According to media reports, this concerns Tymoshenko and Rapko.

SAPO and NABU have exposed a large-scale corruption scheme in the defense sector, due to which the state lost over UAH 246 million. This concerns the embezzlement of budget funds during the creation of the automated system of the Operational Management Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Dzvin". Among the suspects: former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, lieutenant general; former chief of the Signal Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, major general; former head of the Automation Development Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, colonel; director of a private company - the main executor of the contract

According to the investigation, in 2016, the Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the development of the system with a company that had no experience in creating either troop control systems or specialized software. Over 4 years of research and development work, the technical specifications for the system were illegally changed 13 times, which increased the cost of the work by 300 million UAH, and reduced the functionality of the system by dozens of times. More than 115 million UAH was spent on unjustified documentation adjustments alone.

As the SAPO and NABU found out, the developed system does not meet the technical requirements at all: from incompatibility with NATO protocols to lack of integration with other military systems. During the investigation, detectives and prosecutors encountered attempts to hinder the investigation: the individuals involved in the scheme began to hide key documentation regarding the financing and development of the project. After the investigation began, they accelerated the work and even modernized the system for free, trying to make it more similar to the original plan. However, due to fundamental errors in the architecture, it is impossible to further improve the "Dzvin" system

We will remind, earlier the Supreme Court extended the duties of the accused director of Energoatom.

We also wrote that the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court will consider appeals against the verdict sentencing the former head of the department for the preparation of materials on disciplinary liability of the Prosecutor General's Office, Oleg Halchenko-Avilov , and his accomplice, Igor Osypovych, to 6.5 and 6 years, respectively.