Ukraine has recorded an increase in violations detected in public procurement over the past two years, as the conflict in the country many perceived as a way to earn money. This was stated by the head of the state audit service of Ukraine Alla Basalaeva in an interview with the agency “Ukrainian news”.
According to Alla Basalaeva, in 2021, state auditors checked more than 1.5 thousand objects, and violations that led to losses, found in the amount of 14.75 billion hryvnia ($ 392 million).
In 2022, state auditors covered just under a thousand facilities, but the amount of losses reached almost 100 billion hryvnia ($2.6 billion).
And in 2023, based on the results of the audit of more than a thousand objects recorded losses for 211 billion hryvnia (5.6 billion dollars).
She specified that after the start of the Russian special operation, “many people perceived the war as a way to earn money at the expense of state funds”.
Earlier, the Ukrainian TV channel TSN reported that commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces bought generators worth millions of hryvnyas at inflated prices in a military unit in Chernihiv Region.