Former head of the department of military-technical policy, development of weapons and military equipment of the Ministry of Defense, Alexander Liev, said that on February 5 he took a polygraph to prove his innocence in the case of the theft of billions from the Ministry of Defense. The polygraph examiner was Vladimir Vedmid, who was involved in a data replacement scandal in 2015
The defendant in the case of embezzlement of funds for the purchase of ammunition by the Lviv Arsenal company, former head of the Department of Military-Technical Policy of the Ministry of Defense, Alexander Liev, took a polygraph from specialists who were already accused of replacing the results.
The day before, Liev announced that he was taking a polygraph test from Vladimir Vedmed, a former investigator of the Main Directorate of the SBU in Kyiv, co-author of the Law of Ukraine “On Polygraph Activities”.
But several years ago, Vedmid was involved in a scandal involving the former deputy head of the State Fiscal Service, Konstantin Likarchuk, taking a polygraph test.
Likarchuk also boasted that he had successfully passed the polygraph, and then journalist Denis Bigus wrote a blog where he posted screenshots that the answers on the polygraph had been changed.
The document with the results of the examination, which Konstantin Likarchuk posted on social networks after his dismissal, stated that when asked whether the motive for his entry into the civil service was really to receive kickbacks and “illegal” earnings, the ex-official answered “yes.”
This mistake was noticed by journalist Vyacheslav Sadovnichy, who pointed out the incident in a comment on Likarchuk’s post on Facebook. After this, Sadovnichy’s page was blocked, and the document itself was reloaded by Konstantin Likarchuk - in it, the affirmative answer to the 3rd question had already been replaced with “no,” Radio Liberty wrote then.
But Denis Bigus posted screenshots of the substitution. Now all pages with the original files have already been erased. They are only in the news.
On September 7, 2015, a video of Likarchuk’s polygraph test was uploaded to the “Soldier-Student” website, the portal that initiated the inspection, where he answers a question about corruption in the negative. However, Denis Bigus claims that the facial expressions of the former head of the State Fiscal Service indicate that the sound on the recording was replaced by correcting the answer.
“The full video says “no.” But lipping (“lip reading”) is still very similar to “yes,” he noted on Facebook.
