The Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv granted the NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau) access to the bank accounts of a company that supplies tactical backpacks to ATO fighters and is linked to Arsen Avakov's son. The court issued this ruling on March 23, 2016.
During a pre-trial investigation, the National Anti-Terrorist Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) established that Ministry of Internal Affairs officials, in collusion with the management of Dniprovend, a tactical backpack supplier, purchased 6 tactical backpacks for ATO soldiers. It was also established that the supplier lacked the necessary equipment, specialized documentation for the production of these items, and experience in fulfilling similar contracts. Furthermore, the bureau found that the backpacks were purchased at inflated prices.
The court ordered temporary access for NABU investigators to the documents and accounts of Premium Commercial Bank OJSC. Between 1,4 million and 2,3 million hryvnias were transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to this financial institution.
We previously reported that a video was published online showing a man resembling the son of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov negotiating with former Deputy Interior Minister Sergei Chebotar about supplying backpacks to Interior Ministry units.
It was later discovered that the tactical backpack supplier, Dniprovend, was linked to the Minister of Internal Affairs' company, Investor. The tactical backpacks themselves turned out to be cheap counterfeits.
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