Ukraine Border Defense Funds Diverted To Fake Companies - (10% to TBG?)

Posted by freedomforall 8 months, 2 weeks ago to Politics
20 comments | Share | Flag

Excerpt:
"Head of the Mezha Anti-Corruption Center, Martyna Bohuslavets, has written a report in Pravda asking "Where are the fortifications?" She reports that millions of dollars that were intended for the construction of fortifications in Ukraine were instead "transferred to Kharkiv OVA to front companies of avatars."



Bohuslavets said the Ukrainian Kharkiv Regional Military Administration (Kharkiv OVA) paid out funds to fictitious companies during the construction and fortification of the Kharkiv region. The report comes as Russian forces have broken into the northern region of Ukraine and the US continues funding the war.

According to Ukranian Pravda reports, the Russian military has begun to advance in the northern region of Ukraine where funding that was set for fortification was transferred to fake companies. The offensive from the Russian military launched on Monday with attacks on towns and villages, the Kyiv Post reports. A total of 7 billion hryvnias was spent there by Ukraine, according to the report.

This comes as the BBC reports that a regional Ukrainian commander in Kharkiv has said that the first line of defense was missing in a massive "betrayal" in the northern region of the country. Denys Yaroslavskyi, a commander in the region in charge of the Ukrainian Special Reconnaissance Unit, told the outlet, “There was no first line of defence. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields."

He told the BBC that government officials claimed to have built up the mines as the first line of defense at a huge cost. He told reporters, “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal." He then added, “When we were fighting back for this territory in 2022, we lost thousands of people. We risked our lives."

"And now because someone didn’t build fortifications, we’re losing people again," he stated.

In March, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on the lack of oversight on the funds going to Ukraine during the war. GAO found in its report from March that the Defense Department is lacking in its ability to provide oversight on the resources being sent to Ukraine in the war.

The GAO reported, "DOD does not have quality data to track delivery of defense articles to Ukraine. DOD guidance on PDA does not clearly define at what point in the delivery process defense articles should be recorded as delivered or provide clear instructions for how DOD service branches are to confirm delivery." "
------------------------------------------
Is anyone surprised?
D.C. NIFO
SOURCE URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/russians-just-walked-ukraine-border-defense-funds-diverted-fake-companies-massive


Add Comment

FORMATTING HELP

All Comments Hide marked as read Mark all as read

  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 months, 1 week ago
    Me dino is so, so unsurprised by this new Ukrainian rip the USA off news that I feel too lazy to even yawn.
    Hey, but they'll need even more funds in no time, y'all. More and more and more!
    Oh, those poor fat cat babies! So let's hurry to print more cash so we can shovel more, more, more, more and more untold riches into their conniving gluttonous pie holes.
    As for spending needed for our own invaded border? We ain't got no border. So never mind!
    But don't forget to keep your doors and windows locked and your guns loaded. Ain't the Russians coming for us.
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 months, 2 weeks ago
    Yeah, if you look at the timing of payments to TBG early in this conflict it really indicates wide open, unabashed money laundering. Oh well…
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
    • Posted by tutor-turtle 8 months, 1 week ago
      There dirtiest, most corrupt country on the planet bribing the dirtiest, most corrupt politician in America.
      What could possibly go wrong?
      At this juncture, with the country circling the drain as it is, I see little hope for pulling out of this tail spin.
      The swamp, conceding that President Trump will surely be reelected, they are ensuring he will inherit a nation on fire with his hands tied behind his back.
      May the swamp creatures burn in hell.
      We know who they are. They're not even hiding.
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by Ben_C 8 months, 1 week ago
    Why isn't the billions a loan and not a grant? I am done with the federal and state governments. I will live my life as I see fit and not conform to their mandates, What a cluster fu*k.
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by DrZarkov 8 months, 1 week ago
    Zelensky was elected because he promised to focus on rooting out the corruption in Ukraine's government that was a hangover from its years as a Soviet state. There's no doubt that upset existing Ukrainian bureaucrats who had their hands in the cookie jar for years, and didn't want to give it up. There's no doubt those bureaucrats played a part in encouraging Putin's invasion, duping Russian agents into thinking the Ukrainian population was a lot more Russian-favoring than it actually was.

    After the invasion started, survival became the prime goal, and getting rid of corrupt agents dropped to a lower priority. Having to rely on a very corrupt American ally doesn't help. Cleaning up the US Deep State would benefit Ukraine as well.
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
    • Posted by mhubb 8 months, 1 week ago
      Zelensky IS the corruption
      unless putting those opposed to you in jail
      closing churches you do not like
      taking BILLIONS and not accounting for a dime

      0bama over-threw the legit government, helping place this clown into power
      biden caused this war
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
      • -1
        Posted by DrZarkov 8 months, 1 week ago
        I don't buy Russian propaganda. Putin engineered the election of his puppet in Ukraine, to head off the country's bid to join the EU. When he was deposed, he ran for the hills.

        Zelensky was elected because people wanted someone to clean up the corrupt government. When Putin invaded, Zelensky was offered asylum, and chose to stand and fight instead. That doesn't exactly fit the claim he's just a self serving corrupt figure.

        The Russian Orthodox Church is infested with FSB agents. The head of that church is a former senior KGB agent and buddy of Putin. Zelensky tolerated them until it became obvious they were serving as a fifth column.

        Zelensky fired the sitting Ukrainian defense minister because he tolerated theft of aid, replacing him with an economist with a reputation for honesty. That minister has been working with NATO logistics staff to provide better tracking of military aid.

        There's still a problem with humanitarian aid being a cesspool of "diverted" funds, but national survival is the priority.
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
        • Posted by mhubb 8 months, 1 week ago
          is that you Zelensky?

          one man's lie is another man's truth

          Truth is a 3-edged sword
          your trusth
          my truth
          the REAL Truth

          whatever Putin may or may not have done with the "election" did not give 0bama the RIGHT to over-throw the government.

          and skippy.....
          get back to us on the Russian Collusion thing with Trump...
          my point being, you are free to believe whatever propaganda you want
          and clearly you are believing the Zelinsky side

          just do not expect us to swallow it all.
          not with biden the usurper on the side of Zelensky
          that alone tells any sane person there is stuff going on not known by us and calls any REAL American to question just what is going on
          Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          • Posted by DrZarkov 8 months, 1 week ago
            The contest over who's got a handle on the truth is rarely binary. Shades of grey. My history dealing with the Soviets has given me a pretty clear picture of Putin and his ilk. Picking the Russians as the "good guys" is for the easily deceived.

            Is Biden as rotten as dead skunk roadkill? Absolutely, but that doesn't make everyone who has to deal with him just as rotten. Zelensky wasn't anywhere near the overthrow of the Russian puppet, and I have to laugh at people who try to paint that government's downfall as the product of a brilliant CIA ploy. I've dealt with those clowns enough to know how many times they've f**ked up less challenging missions.

            Russia is a nation of terrified, cornered rats, and Putin knows that they will keep dying as long as they're afraid. When even Sweden and Finland ditch their neutrality because they're certain that if Ukraine falls, they're next, maybe people should listen? I only hope Trump doesn't listen to people who say we should let Ukraine fend for itself.
            Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by nonconformist 8 months, 1 week ago
    Both, this corruption and the war are symptoms of society's predation increasing to a critical level. Once all the parasites kill each other, the cycle starts again.
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by term2 8 months, 1 week ago
    1- USA under Biden doesnt want Ukraine to WIN against Russia. Russia doesn't want to LOSE. Russia has little to gain actually by annexing Ukraine. Its already the biggest country on earth in terms of land mass. We are spending money to slow down the eventual takeover by Russia of a devastated Ukraine, which will be worth even less than it is today. If Russia does annex Ukraine, it will inherit people who hate Russia to the core and will take any chance they have to destroy Russia.
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 months, 1 week ago
    It is hilarious, pathetic and maximally hypocritical for the government (DOD) to not be able to track delivery.

    If you are a defense contractor, selling ITAR equipment to a foreign country, and your equipment shows up in as different country, particularly a "bad" country, you are responsible, accountable, and can be prosecuted. If the government does it ... well, that was bad, hope it doesn't happen again...

    THIS is a major problem with our government. If they are not accountable, they CAN NOT have power. That does NOT work!
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
    • Posted by $ Abaco 8 months, 1 week ago
      Good point. I remember the ass grinding I went through over this as an investment advisor. The Feds were on fund sources like flies on scroad. And if I didn’t declare something I was done. Yet with all these billions…”No. No accountability needed here.”
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  

FORMATTING HELP

  • Comment hidden. Undo