The largest arms deal of Ukraine. How to get rich 11 intermediaries

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The largest arms deal of Ukraine. How to get rich 11 intermediaries


Armory the deal between Kiev and Baghdad six years ago became the largest in all history Ukrainian independence. Under the contract from 25 September, 2009 of the year, concluded between the Ministry of Defense of Iraq and the state enterprise Progress Specialized Foreign Trade Company (in the structure of the Ukrspecexport state concern), Ukraine has committed to repair six MI-8T helicopters worth $ 3,6 million AN-32B aircraft for 99 million dollars, as well as 420 units of wheeled armored personnel carriers BTR-4 and vehicles based on it for 457,5 million dollars.

It was expected that in the future new treaties would follow - in zero Iraq seriously engaged in its defense capability, and in Ukraine they hoped to earn about the supply of 2,5 billion dollars to this country. Six years later, the “golden mountains” were covered in ashes: the Ukrainians did not meet the deadlines, having completed less than half of the order, and the prosecutor’s office came to the conclusion that the deal with Baghdad turned out to be one of the most corrupt in the history of the Ukrainian defense industry.

Now law enforcement agencies are investigating the involvement of the Ukrainian side in the 11 arms deal with foreign intermediaries who have earned on the military contract 46 million dollars. Investigators are sure that most of them performed only fictitious functions.

Upon the expiry of six years from the date of signing, the outcome of the contract is as follows: under the specified contracts, Ukrainian Progress received 261,85 million dollars. For this money, the defense industrial complex of Ukraine manufactured six AN-32B and 128 BTR-4E aircraft, of which only 88 was delivered to the customer, the rest of the vehicles were not transferred.

This became known from the definition of the Kiev Pechersk Court of 25 September 2015.

According to this document, in 2009-2013, the state-owned enterprise SVTF Progress, to fulfill the contracts concluded with the Iraqi Defense Ministry, attracted 11 intermediary firms to provide agency, legal and other services to Universal Investment Group (USA), Jankovic & Associates. Inc. (USA), Mirage Sarl (Lebanon, Beirut), AL-Jar trading FZCO (UAE Dubai), Company Paragon Impex Ltd (UK, London), Wahi AL-Abda'a Co (Iraq), Lionel Europe Corporation (UK London) , Runestone Partners LLC (USA), Dinet Group LTD (Lebanon, Beirut), Rawat Al-Moruge (Iraq), Al Khairat (Iraq) Al Arabia Co (Iraq). According to the investigation, most of them did not provide the declared services.

As the investigators calculated, out of the half-billion contract amount, “about 82 million dollars by the top managers of the SVTF Progress GP was planned to spend outside the customs territory of Ukraine to pay for legal, consulting and other services.” However, the total amount turned out to be half as much due to non-fulfillment of obligations.

Distribution of funds in accordance with acts of work performed under agency agreements / contracts

Al-Jar Trading FZCO received - $ 8,03 million;

Universal Investment Group, Inc. / Jankovic & Associates. Inc. - $ 9,32 million;

Company Paragon Impex Ltd. - $ 12,21 million;

Runestone Partners LLC $ 750 thousand;

Mirage Sarl $ 9,0 million and 186 thousand euros;

Lionel Europe Corporation - $ 2,24 million;

Dinet Group Ltd - $ 6,35 million


What are some of these firms to understand the example of the "London" company Lionel Europe Corporation. It is not in the list of companies registered in the UK House Companies Registry. Also, it is not among the previously liquidated enterprises.

True, not all of the intermediaries were pocket.

In its investigation, the Prosecutor General's Office refers to an article three years ago called US court case poses new threat to huge Ukraine-Iraq arms deal, published on the foreign website www.bne.eu. According to the information published in it, services for the provision of agency, legal and other services under foreign economic contracts between SE SVTF Progress and the Iraqi Ministry of Defense were carried out exclusively by US citizens - Howard Lowry, Patrick Lowry and Tariq AL companies -Waffa for General Trading & Trading Agencies Company. This fact was established by the decision of the San Antonio (West Texas, USA) jury on August 26, 2010 (Case Number: 5: 2010cv00713) in the latter's claim against Jankovic & Associates. Inc. and Universal Investment Group.



The presence of American intermediaries in the Ukrainian-Iraqi deal was legitimate. Baghdad bought Ukrainian equipment and weapons with financial support from the US State Department. And, accordingly, the intermediary companies in the arms deal were not chosen without the participation of Washington.

As www.bne.eu wrote, one of the architects of the deal between Ukraine and Iraq was businessman Howard Lowry, who has worked in the Middle East since the beginning of the 50s. He made money in Iraq by looking for orders for American companies. It is his claims that are now being actively studied in the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, since he initiated the first meetings between Ukrainian arms dealers and the Iraqi military seven years ago. Another American of Ukrainian descent, Oleg Jankovic, owner of Washington-based Jankovic & Associates, also played a significant role in this deal. Lowry had a written agreement with him for XNUMX% of the commission from contracts, but then Jankovic ousted Lowry from the deal, not without the help of the Ukrainians.

Three years ago, the San Antonio court awarded businessman Lowry with a colossal compensation of $ 61,75 million, which he now owes Ukrainian-American brokers. The mentioned article notes that the trial provoked a change of mediators between Ukraine and Iraq after President Viktor Yanukovych came to power.

This, in particular, was previously reported by Ukrainskaya Pravda, citing its sources. They say, Dmitry Salamatin, director general of Ukrspetsexport state concern, did not allow one of the American intermediaries to pay for services.

The rotation of the intermediaries behind the scenes by Yanukovych’s team failed - a scandal immediately flared up. In the 2011 year, Kiev was very late to send the first batch of 26 armored vehicles to Baghdad, and the Iraqi authorities refused to accept the next delivery (from 62 BTR). The formal cause was the technical defects identified during the inspection.

Later, the second batch was nevertheless sent and “to thank” for this, it seems, follows the ex-regionalist Yuriy Ivanyushchenko, who is close to Yanukovych. The fact is that two American companies from the above list of intermediaries - Universal Investment Group (the official representative is Ukrainian Nikolai Karanko) and Jankovic & Associates - provided important services to Yuri Ivanyushchenko in 2011. The supporting documents were at the disposal of Ukrainska Pravda four years ago. The questionable past of this Donetsk businessman prevented him from obtaining a US visa, and American lobbyists then began to help him.

And to the public, the Ukrainian authorities made “guilty” the Hero of Ukraine Mikhail Borisyuk, the general designer of the design bureau for them. A. A. Morozov - the main developer of armored vehicles and artillery systems of Ukraine. Salamatin signed an order for his dismissal in February 2011 of the year for offsetting the deadlines for the delivery of 11 armored personnel carriers and the marriage.

Now the Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating the circumstances of the “commission by the heads of Ukrspetsexport, the state enterprise Progress, the state-owned foreign trade company, the Kharkiv Design Bureau for Mechanical Engineering named after them. A.A. Morozov "(SE" KMDB them. Morozov ") facts of official forgery and abuse of official position, which led to the non-fulfillment of large-scale foreign economic contracts".
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  1. +16
    17 October 2015 05: 57
    it is under official contracts ...
    And what happened in the late 90s in Ukraine ...
    any equipment was sold (airplanes, helicopters)
    by sea with all the permissions lucky to the buyer ...
    a year later the SBU officer appeared and asked the warrant officer at the airfield: "where have such and such boards gone ...?"
    1. wow
      +17
      17 October 2015 10: 01
      In 95, aircraft (MiG-29) were taken out from my terminal airfield in semi-disassembled trailers, no one knows where.
      1. +11
        17 October 2015 13: 27
        Wonderfully practical nation! But they sold their army in vain. Now they will feed the American!
      2. +7
        17 October 2015 19: 12
        If only planes, most of all they sold promising developments in the drawings.
    2. +2
      17 October 2015 16: 54
      Yes, God bless them with Ukrainians. Who is interested in working on our saw frame?
    3. +1
      18 October 2015 23: 01
      The SBU from the top organized all this at the request of foreign active "partners" since 95. The bottom drank vodka, and then another vodka made them. The storage sites were cleaned by fires even before the Georgian epic. In general, all the warehouses of the Armed Forces can be considered as a shop window for those who has an admission ticket. Moreover, the "mistresses" are very mistaken that all sales are controlled bully
  2. +20
    17 October 2015 06: 02
    The bodies of the BTR-4 were in cracks, so Iraq refused to accept them. Our vehicles were sent to the ATO zone.
    1. +17
      17 October 2015 08: 25
      Quote: andrewkor
      The bodies of the BTR-4 were in cracks, so Iraq refused to accept them. Our vehicles were sent to the ATO zone.

      And now they are presented as modern))))) development and the latest weapons in the country, tailored to the ATO and for the heroes of the ATO. And laughter and sin in one glass bl.
      1. +2
        17 October 2015 09: 47
        It is good that they did not send to the anti-terrorist operation zone, otherwise all the militia would be equipped with defective equipment.
  3. +4
    17 October 2015 06: 08
    Quote: BLOND
    it is under official contracts ...
    And what happened in the late 90s in Ukraine ...
    any equipment was sold (airplanes, helicopters)
    by sea with all the permissions lucky to the buyer ...
    a year later the SBU officer appeared and asked the warrant officer at the airfield: "where have such and such boards gone ...?"

    everything can be understood if you trace the history of BTA Ukraine
  4. +6
    17 October 2015 06: 34
    What can I talk about, if in 2006, the Ukrainian military offered Ak, cartridges for him and two rgdshki))) But I had to go back across several borders, so I did not dare to buy this arsenal. Yes, and honestly not Bylo.on my question from where, he answered from the warehouse! And if you wait a week, I will get the PM for 300 dollars.
  5. +7
    17 October 2015 06: 37
    What do we care? Screwed x.ohly well, thank God request
    1. +14
      17 October 2015 13: 45
      Quote: afdjhbn67
      What do we care? Screwed x.ohly well, thank God

      When two fight better than the third, at least.
      One of the cats is like a Jew!
      1. +15
        17 October 2015 13: 59
        One of the cats is like a Jew!

        or as
  6. +7
    17 October 2015 06: 44
    They surprised the corruption component of this deal. In Ukraine, there is not a single industry left where this corruption has not blossomed violently fertilized by high-ranking Ukrainian officials. Everything is natural. And Iraq is a lesson for the future.
  7. +6
    17 October 2015 06: 45
    Vasilieva - 2
  8. +1
    17 October 2015 07: 28
    The constant change of power on the outskirts prevents the conclusion of any profitable contract. And if it were not for US intervention, no one would have become involved with unreliable dill.
  9. +4
    17 October 2015 08: 00
    Not at all surprised. The country of Thieves, Freeloaders and now bandits. Where is the president of the country a thief, the prime thief. The government is so corrupt that it does not make sense to deal with this phenomenon. How can you put yourself in jail? During the USSR, fed at his expense. How it broke up - they climbed the other way to lick your ass faster, if only they gave a cookie. Neither their own policies, nor their own dignity.
  10. +4
    17 October 2015 08: 02
    The indestructible union of Ukraine and the USA is growing stronger ... on the basis of joint theft! laughing

    "Blue Thieves" (12 chairs) laughing
  11. +3
    17 October 2015 08: 23
    The main thing is that they found the legendary "switchman", and the rest are details that are no longer interesting to anyone
  12. +2
    17 October 2015 09: 06
    Serdyukov with Vasiliev’s arms were not traded, they weren’t military property. Which, of course, does not justify them. And these ... They never had anything holy.
  13. +11
    17 October 2015 09: 39
    Does anyone else want to do business with them?
  14. +3
    17 October 2015 09: 43
    The conclusion arising from the article: Ruins have neither the capabilities nor the resources nor the specialists to fulfill a more or less significant contract for the production of military equipment, but what they already sold from the union ... these are the realities of the military-industrial complex and the Defense Ministry of Ruins .. .and they all jump: ... "the strongest army ..."
  15. +1
    17 October 2015 09: 45
    As in the song: "... they, my dear, kind children, will rob the whole white light."
  16. +3
    17 October 2015 10: 59
    Puppies!
    Ukraine will never become a real state.
    Here are our, Russian guys at only one object - the Vostochny cosmodrome - "chewed" from the state treasury two orders of magnitude more money, so what?
    1. +1
      17 October 2015 15: 42
      Quote: capitosha1rang
      Here are our, Russian guys at only one object - the Vostochny cosmodrome - "chewed" from the state treasury two orders of magnitude more money, so what?

      Shhh ... In the deafening patriotic rhetoric of recent times, it’s not customary to get skeletons out of a domestic cabinet.
  17. +3
    17 October 2015 12: 25
    The thief on the thief and the thief drive. Into the state of thieves and fascists. And now say that these are our brothers.
  18. +1
    17 October 2015 13: 45
    And what follows from the article, we calculated the money of others of those on whom we actually put ???
  19. 0
    17 October 2015 14: 10
    As usual, again the Russians are to blame
    1. 0
      18 October 2015 01: 42
      Quote: bsk_mna54
      As usual, again the Russians are to blame


      NOT ALWAYS! It turns out that at the time, there were NO Putin and Russians on the Maidan. And they created their heavenly hundred unobtrusively. Dill could not hide it from surprise and now everyone knows it ... Probably were delighted ... It turns out that they also - they can. Glory to the heroes ...
  20. 0
    17 October 2015 14: 35
    not for nothing there is a saying among the people ... as it came, it went .... hi slurp "happiness" with a full spoon of devastation in their heads.
  21. +1
    17 October 2015 16: 17
    That's great, our market and soon in Iraq there will be a Russian base similar to the Syrian one, well, where do the Ukrainians go with their pieces of iron? And what kind of "Krazy" from the left of the armored personnel carrier
  22. +1
    17 October 2015 22: 38
    I think the BND and the CIA have already completely calculated the whole system, but it’s not clear with what sauce they give information to such figures as Obama and Merkel. This is already visible to the naked eye as the money goes away and questions are asked not only in the media. For a year, they will push water in a mortar .. ..........!
  23. +1
    18 October 2015 01: 22
    I remember this story when the unfortunate armored personnel carriers sailed on the ship in the oceans, back and forth, and no one wanted to take them for themselves. laughing
  24. 0
    18 October 2015 16: 30
    in a word, hohland is booming ...
  25. +1
    18 October 2015 19: 28
    We would have had a similar situation, if the GDP did not begin to select the team in time (the problem is that the selection has somewhat stalled recently), the reason is in the pro-Western lobby "effective managers", "shift workers" - very much hinder the recovery of the Russian economy .They, like hohlyatsky Jews, are all ready to sell for their own profit. Therefore, now it is extremely important to "put them in their place", THIS IS A LOT OF TALKS, but nothing to do.
  26. 0
    19 October 2015 13: 56
    And from us Serdyukov and Vasiliev were stolen ten times more, so what? And that's just what they were able to sew. And what about the cut at the Vostochny cosmodrome? More than one yard was taken away there, and no one, not even a switchman, was imprisoned, not to mention any of the serious persons. And what about the "dissolution" of money from the Central Bank, Sberbank and VTB? So we ourselves have something to be proud of.

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