Law enforcement agencies conducted searches in the offices of former Kyiv City Council deputy Leonid Kryuchkov, owned by companies.
The businessman makes money from contracts for the supply of products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“We are talking about enterprises that have a direct connection with Kryuchkov, who, while the guys are dying on the front line, earns billions from food tenders with the Ministry of Defense,” the message says.
The case involves ATOMSERVICE LLC, REKTAN LLC, ARKHIMAGIR LLC, ARMISET LLC and others. According to information in open sources, Kryuchkov’s group of companies signed contracts for the supply of food packages with the Ministry of Defense worth more than UAH 9 billion in 2023 alone.
However, as noted, it is not the amounts that are interesting, but the details: instead of butter, the supplier purchased a spread dangerous to health based on palm oil and sold it to the Armed Forces for three times more than its real market value.
Previously, SBU investigators called Kryuchkov’s part of a group that embezzled funds from food contracts. In particular, the media reported that the Atomservice company appears in the story of the possible theft of one of the military units in the Kharkov region for a total amount of more than 5 million UAH.
