Ukraine Anti-corruption group reveals fake companies in Kharkiv fortification contracts

"Contracts for supplying wood for fortifications in Kharkiv Oblast, worth 366 million hryvnias ($9.2 million), raise significant concerns, Martyna Bohuslavets, head of the Anti-Corruption Center Mezha, told Radio NV. contracts were signed with companies that appear to be fictitious. Tens of millions of hryvnias were transferred to a private entrepreneur whose owner, Ihor Chaus, has a criminal record for stealing a bottle of whiskey from a supermarket and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service, said the anti-graft activist. Mezha did not evaluate the construction of the fortifications, as this should be done by law enforcement agencies, including checking whether the timber was actually supplied. " NV