Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation detained a Lviv businessman, one of the largest suppliers of the Ministry of Defense, who offered a bribe of 500 thousand US dollars to one of the heads of the Bureau's Main Investigation Department for assistance in the return of property seized from companies under his control during the investigation.
According to the UP source, we are talking about Igor Grinkevich. Law enforcement officers exposed his face through anonymous telegram channels
As stated in the SBI report, several months ago the Bureau opened criminal proceedings into transactions involving the purchase of clothing and linen for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Lviv businessman’s companies won 23 tenders to supply the Ministry of Defense with clothing worth more than UAH 1.5 billion.
During the investigation, it was established that enterprises controlled by the businessman, which were previously engaged in construction and did not have adequate production, warehouse and other facilities for the manufacture and storage of clothing for the needs of the Ministry of Defense, were involved in the implementation of defense orders.
This led to budget losses, according to preliminary estimates, of UAH 1.2 billion and, accordingly, a disruption in supplies.
Apparently, we are talking about the same fact that has already been described in the report of the Accounts Chamber. Just 2 months ago.
One and a half billion overdue on jackets, and this is just the beginning
For the first time, Grinkevich’s companies came to the attention of the author 2 months ago, thanks to a report by the Accounts Chamber. It indicated that three companies associated in one way or another with this businessman failed to complete tenders for approximately 1.5 billion UAH.
Thus, LLC CONSTRUCTION ALLIANCE MONTAZHPROEKT, whose registered list of activities certainly does not provide for specialization in the production (sewing) of clothing, did not meet the delivery deadline under 5 contracts for 425,087.28 thousand UAH. Because of them, the military did not receive linen shirts, insulated trousers, and a summer field suit on time.
This company belongs to the son of the detained SBI, Roman Grinkevich, who received an award from Vladimir Zelensky as a volunteer.
Similarly, CITYGRAD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LLC disrupted transactions.
This LLC did not meet the deadline for the delivery of clothing property (until May 31, 2023) by UAH 493,495.78 thousand for a similar group of goods.
Already a superficial search on Google shows that this company is not only associated with the previous one, but has already worked with MO. And even then the Ministry of Defense had problems with it.
At the end of 2021, the Nikolaev Center for Investigative Journalism wrote that Citigrad was hired as a construction company in the construction of the headquarters of a new military camp at the Shirokiy Lan training ground, which is the largest in southern Ukraine.
The tender itself for more than 44 million UAH was won by Zhytomyr LLC Construction Alliance Montazproekt. One of the conditions was not to involve any subcontractors in the work. But this enterprise hired Citigrad, and it, in turn, hired a company from Odessa, Economy Energy Engineering, which actually carried out these works, but never received the full payment.
The third MO supplier from the same family, who did not deliver clothing supplies on time and was highlighted by the Accounts Chamber, is TRADE LINES RETAIL LLC. She did not supply clothing supplies worth UAH 585,447.74 thousand on time.
TRADE LINES RETAIL LLC only at the auction on Prozorro for the second half of 2023 received contracts for army food worth 1.3 billion hryvnia.
The company has 2 million authorized capital. Its leader is Vladimir Ivanovich Tymkiv. Among the final beneficiaries back in May were Shved Olga Igorevna, who is a 100% beneficiary of VT Development, and Svetlana Grinkevich. This is the daughter and wife of the detained Grinkevich.
By the way, VT Development entered the army food market in 2023. Its contracts until April amounted to 1.7 billion. And the company supplied food to the Odessa region.
In addition, the Hope.UA charitable foundation is registered in Svetlana Grinkevich’s name.
If you go to the fund's page, you will see a lot of beautiful photos with children and gift wrapping. And also a photo of Grinkevich with the chairman of the Lviv Regional State Administration Kozitsky.
Meanwhile, if you go to the register of court decisions, the picture there will not be such a beautiful one.
Land plots from disposable tableware for the army
It turns out that since the beginning of 2023, this group of companies and its satellites have been trying to lift the seizure of their property. But already in production by the National Polar Committee.
From the court ruling of the Pechersk Court you can find out more details of this case.
It turns out that production has been running since June 2022.
It talks about a scheme for fraudulent appropriation of budget funds on an especially large scale in the supply of goods for military needs to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using the following companies: LLC "PERSPECTIVE "GOROD STROY", LLC "CONSTRUCTION ALLIANCE MONTAZHPROEKT", LLC "TRADE LINES RETAIL", LLC "CONSTRUCTION COMPANY CITYGRAD"
During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that officials of PERSPECTIVE GOROD BUD LLC entered into agreements with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for the supply of goods for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, namely: body armor, body armor and disposable tableware for a total amount of more than 500 million UAH.
To fulfill these agreements, the company received UAH 17.96 million on May 11, 2022. (for disposable tableware for the Armed Forces of Ukraine) and 06/09/2022 - 490.17 million UAH. (advance payment for clothing for the Armed Forces of Ukraine - body armor and armored helmets). These funds were transferred by the State Treasury Service of Ukraine to the company's current account.
On June 10, the company “PERSPECTIVE “GOROD STROY” transferred funds in the amount of UAH 220 million and UAH 150 million to its own current accounts.
After which 63.8 million UAH were transferred to CITYGRAD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LLC for construction materials.
78.88 million UAH were transferred by the same company for construction materials to LLC CONSTRUCTION ALLIANCE MONTAZHPROEKT.
UAH 0.3 million, according to the investigator, went to the bank account of TRADE LINES RETAIL LLC.
Another part of the money went to the private accounts of those involved in the production.
In addition, 35.10 million UAH were transferred to SWISS KRONO LLC for the purchase of a land plot and 78.8 for the purchase of a building nearby.
Access to data on the site is now blocked by a decision of the Pechersk Court.
It is interesting that the SBU is conducting production under the same contract. And there, the court ruling specifies the number of helmets and body armor. And it somehow surprisingly coincides with the amount of volunteer assistance from the Grinkevich Foundation. For some reason the news about this disappeared from the website.
The investigator indicates that in July 2022, LLC “PERSPECTIVE “CITY BUD” (USREOU code 41654425) transferred funds in the amount of about 90 million UAH to other enterprises with the purpose of payment “for construction materials and mechanisms.”
In addition, there may be facts of overestimation of the cost in the amount of about 4.56 million UAH when purchasing disposable tableware for the Armed Forces of LLC “PERSPECTIVE “CITY BUD” at the expense of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Investigators suspected that the money was later converted into cash and therefore asked first for searches and then for seizure of property.
However, by the decision of the odious judge Sergei Vovk, the seizure of the property of the Grinkevich companies was lifted.
In addition, in the register you can find another determination on the claim of the Ministry of Defense, where it asks to recover 80 million from Construction Alliance Montazhproekt LLC for uncompleted construction work in one of the military units.
This is not to mention the other won construction projects, the scandals around which were enough for an entire article. For example, young Grinkevich, who ran for the Servants, received an award from the chairman of the Regional State Administration for the reconstruction of the museum. And then it turned out that it was impossible to raise the temperature in the room. But a museum for mammoths - why do they already need this warmth...
The dilemma of the Ministry of Defense and the ideal IPSO
From this story we can now talk about the big dilemma of the Ministry of Defense - whether to enter into contracts with similar companies in the future. As a matter of fact, the presence of simply production is not a sufficient reason - competitors and opponents can quickly write such a thing. But a year's delay in delivery seems to be a sufficient reason not to sign an agreement with such a supplier. So that later the Minister of Finance does not ask where the money disappears from the budget.
There is one more caveat from this case. Since the production also includes the Grinkevich charitable foundation, which was involved in restoration projects.
The media reported that the foundation’s delegation visited Lublin, Bratislava, Vienna, Brno and Prague, where they met with representatives of Ukrainian embassies, local authorities and organizations providing humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians. They everywhere presented the Sich social housing project for internally displaced persons - low-rise residential complexes with all the necessary infrastructure and jobs.
It will be a wonderful story if it turns out that statesmen brought the defendants in criminal proceedings to the Europeans. Because in addition to the photo with Kozitsky, Grinkevich also has a photo with the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Mikhail Fedorov.
And in general, the lifestyle of young Grinkevichs creates an ideal IPSO for Russians to discredit us in Europe and quarrel among themselves.
“In the winter of 2023, Svetlana Grinkevich and her daughter become co-owners of a sand quarry in the suburbs of Lvov. Each receives a third of PJSC Career Management in the village. Zeliv, who has a valid permit from the Lviv Regional State Administration for sand extraction on an area of tens of hectares. Considering that 20 million UAH were paid for a similar special permit for an area of 5 hectares at a recent auction, the much larger quarry acquired by the Grinkevichs will cost tens of millions of hryvnia,” says the investigation into the family.
In March 2023, Svetlana Grinkevich buys the Ekaterina motel complex, built on the bypass highway near the Arena-Lviv stadium.
The authors of the investigation also indicate that the family has acquired luxury real estate in Kyiv and Kozin.
On August 27, in the second year of the full-scale invasion, Olga Grinkevich posted herself in the golden carriage of Ukrzaliznytsia, which is used to transport VIP guests. Then I caught myself and deleted the message, but the photos remained in the TabloID publication. Grinkevich also posted classic Instagram photos from her birthday and vacation in Sardinia.
Journalist Evgeny Plinsky found out that the son of the detainee, Roman Grinkevich, appeared in Mikhail Tkach’s investigation about “War-weary visitors to the capital’s Boho club.” In his new BMW car, worth about $150,000.
In addition, Plinsky writes that Roman Grinkevich has a fiancée, Sonya Morozyuk.
Recently, an advertisement for her exhibition “Dauze” could be seen at the Gulliver shopping center. The 20-year-old artist also presented her painting to the president. In addition, the girl has a collaboration with Ruslan Baginsky and a bag manufacturing company.
At this time, the family's companies did not supply hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods to the Ministry of Defense.
