Twenty diesel engines worth UAH 6,89 million have disappeared from the Zhytomyr Armored Vehicle Plant.

the hand rakes in the doughThe National Police is investigating a criminal case against the management of the Zhytomyr Armored Plant (ZhBTZ) regarding the disappearance of 20 diesel engines worth a total of UAH 6,9 million, according to a ruling by the Zhytomyr District Court.

Criminal case materials indicate that in October 2014, ZhBTZ Director Serhiy Butenko ordered 20 UTD-20 engines removed from reserve for a performance check. The engines were then transported to the plant's diesel shop, where they were tested for functionality. They were later removed from the state-owned enterprise without any relevant documentation. However, their delivery location remains unknown. The equipment's value is estimated at 6,89 million hryvnias. When the search for the engines began, the armor plant's director reported to Ukroboronprom that the equipment belonged to NPK Techimpex LLC.

The court granted the investigators' request to conduct an unscheduled inspection of the ZhBTZ and the enterprise OOO NPK Tekhimpex, as well as military unit A0297.

The founders of NPK Techimpex LLC are listed as Igor Perekhov, Yuri Kravchenko, and Evgeny Vashchilin. The latter is the son of Viktor Vashchilin, known as the former head of the State Export Control Service.

The UTD-20 diesel engines that disappeared from the factory are installed on BMP (infantry fighting vehicles), BMD (airborne combat vehicles), and also on SAU (self-propelled artillery units).

In 2014, the state-owned enterprise "ZhBTZ" was headed by Serhiy Butenko. However, in July 2015, Oleksiy Babich, brother of Ukroboronprom's deputy chief of staff, Andriy Babich, became the head of the enterprise.

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