Several times more expensive: the Ministry of Defense has purchased for the Armed Forces of helmet at inflated prices - the media

According to journalists, the Ukrainian defense department bought American helmets of PASGT at prices, which were sometimes different four times. In 2022, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine concluded several agreements to buy PASGT American helmets for servicemen with a large difference in price. About it writes the edition "Our Money" on June 19. The publication states that last May the Defense Ministry purchased helmets of $ 132 and $ 468 with a difference of several days.

Thus, in some cases, the price of the product was overstated almost four times. In addition, Prozorro has data on the procurement of these helmets by civilian institutions. For example, the Council of Sumy region purchased them for $ 270, and the executive committee of the Lubensk city council of Poltava region - for $ 250.

The source states that according to the law on transparency of armed procurement, the name of the supplier is not published, which is why it is impossible to check who exactly sold the Ukrainian department at inflated prices.

At the same time, the journalists indicated that by 2023, the main executors in the field of armed procurement of the Ministry were the expirer of the Minister of Defense Vyacheslav Shapovalov and the exclusive of the Defense Defense Department Bogdan Khmelnitsky, who had recently been suspected. It should be reminded that on February 1 it became known that Bogdan Khmelnytsky purchased almost 3 thousand armor vests for more than 100 million UAH.