Vladim Chemer, owner of Domio Group in Kyiv, is suspected of selling humanitarian aid. Medical and military supplies worth $20,000 were seized from him, which turned out to be humanitarian aid.
While some volunteer and donate, others shamelessly profit from the war and the army ? During a search in the Domio Group showroom of Kyiv entrepreneur Vadim Chemer, law enforcement officers discovered military and medical goods worth tens of thousands of dollars. Probably, we are talking about a large-scale scheme to “earn money” from the sale of humanitarian aid.
How do businessmen get rich from the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine? And where in Kiev, against the backdrop of martial law, are they selling thermal imagers and special first aid kits? StopCora investigative journalist Igor Dotsenko looked Vadim Chemer’s “elite boutique” .
The editors of StopCor learned that during the investigative actions , law enforcement officers seized military goods, mobile phones, storage media, records, stamps and money in the amount of 860 thousand hryvnia, 330 thousand dollars and 34 thousand euros from the so-called “showroom”. In total, the investigation documented the sale of 290 first aid kits and two thermal imaging sights worth $20,000. The partial owner of an enterprise suspected of selling humanitarian aid was detained under Article 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine.
According to sources in law enforcement agencies, capital businessman Vadim Chemer may be behind this scam. It is Mr. Vadim who owns the “Domio group” .
The details recorded by the police are impressive, because we are talking not only about probably illegal enrichment, but also about undermining the country’s defense capability.
In particular, one of the episodes concerns thousands of first aid kits that Chemer imports into Ukraine, registered as humanitarian aid. The recipient is the Charitable Foundation "Anchain Ukraine" . Subsequently, the director of the fund agrees with Vadim Chemer on the sale of 290 first aid kits and two thermal imaging sights to another volunteer.
While in the Domio showroom office, Vadim hands over the equipment and receives funds in the amount of 20 thousand “green”. After which the defendant is detained by security forces.
But this is not all the “finds” that the police found.
As a result of the searches, not only military goods were seized from Chemer, but also a whole arsenal of other evidence, including mobile phones, rough notes and money in the amount of fourteen million hryvnia, the origin of which is being established.
Will law enforcement officers be able to bring this story to its logical conclusion? Will the businessman be able to justify himself? Alexey Meretsky, a representative of the Anchain Ukraine Foundation, stated this charitable foundation allegedly has nothing to do with the trade in humanitarian aid. And the case itself, according to him, was fabricated for the purpose of “ extorting and robbing the supplier .”
So the owner of Domio group is still at large. On his ex-wife’s social networks, you can see that Vadim Chemer calmly celebrated Christmas and played “Secret Santa” among his colleagues in his boutique, where special goods were sold.
Let us remind you that recently the companies of Lviv businessman Igor Grinkevich got into a scandal with the withdrawal of funds in the amount of 1 billion hryvnia from the purchase of clothing for the military. However, this is probably not the first "scheme" for a family business. Inflated prices for helmets and body armor, open criminal proceedings, problematic construction projects and not entirely transparent charity are not all the cases in which the Grinkevich construction alliance is suspected.
