"Dzvin-AS" may not be delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine are investigating a criminal case of theft on an especially large scale committed by military personnel and officials during the development of the Dzvin-AS system, they write. Our money.
About it сообщил Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, a member of parliament from the Holos faction and first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada's parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, cited the NABU's response to his inquiry.
As Yurchyshyn explained, the NABU is investigating a "whole bunch" of criminal code articles committed during the execution of the "Dzvin-AS" criminal investigation: embezzlement on an especially large scale, negligence in military service, and abuse of power, including by military personnel.
In particular, we are talking about transactions with the automated troop control system, exposed Investigators from the Bigus.Info program. According to the journalistic investigation, the Ministry of Defense spent four years and 600 million hryvnias on this system.
«The project in question was the Dzvin-AS experimental design project. Its essence lay in the creation of an automated system for the operational command center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Journalists discovered that the 2020 model of the system had so many shortcomings and problems that its implementation in the army was deemed impractical and impossible at the time. However, this did not stop the Ministry of Defense from continuing to develop the notorious "Kolokol" system and continuing to spend budget funds on it. Recently, the Minister of Defense even reported to Parliament "on the completion of the state testing cycle of the strategic-level automated command system, the Dzvin R&D project," and "the system's preparation for delivery."" Yurchyshyn said.
The deputy chairman of the anti-corruption committee emphasized that the deployment of the system featured in the NABU investigation in the army "at the most crucial moment of the war" could lead to "fatal consequences."
Yurchyshyn also reported that the Voice faction invited the Ukrainian Minister of Defense to its meeting to clarify all the circumstances surrounding the development of this system.
"I hope we learn about this from Minister Reznikov before NABU's suspicions against the developers of 'Dzvin' and their lobbyists in the army," the MP concluded.
Last year, "Our Money with Denis Bigus" reported that the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense had failed to launch an online troop command and control system in four years, despite spending 580 million hryvnias on it.
The contract with Yuriy Chubatyuk's Everest Limited was signed back in 2016. At the time, it envisaged the creation of a Unified Automated Control System for the Armed Forces of Ukraine for UAH 218 million. Initially, it was assumed that the company would only create design documentation for the Delta system, which former volunteers had already begun implementing in the army. But then the General Staff decided that the company would develop its own system and carry out design work on Dzvin-AS. Over the course of four years, the budget increased significantly.
Journalists analyzed the audit report for this project. It showed that its implementation in the army may be impractical and impossible. The main problem was that the Kolokol system is incompatible with similar systems in NATO member states. The lack of open software interfaces in Dzvin, which comply with international standards, complicates further integration with other software in the Unified Command and Control System of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Furthermore, the digital map management system is implemented in such a way that Kolokol cannot ensure effective operation during combat operations. Classification classifications in the system are assigned not to individual documents or data, but to entire command posts, making prompt and automatic data exchange impossible. Some of the software in Kolokol is licensed third-party software purchased by Everest.
According to the court registry, the SBU considered ICUZN IT and Interesi Base to be associated with Ukrainian Electronics and Everest Limited. Everest Limited was supposed to develop the Unified Automated Control System for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Dzvin-AS, based on Interesi Base software.
After the program's release, Everest Limited was re-registered to UA Defense, then owned by Dmitry Lyulin, and then to Information Security - Latest Solutions, owned by Yuri Pastukhov.
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