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The indictment advances a major alleged embezzlement case involving hundreds of millions of hryvnias from military food procurement during Russia's full-scale invasion. It links former Ministry of Defence procurement oversight to private suppliers through a catalogue-pricing mechanism that reportedly allowed prices for in-demand goods to be inflated while prices for goods that units could not order were set artificially low. The case also ties the alleged scheme to the January 2023 egg-purchase scandal that led to the dismissal of the defence minister and other senior officials.

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Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities sent an indictment to the Higher Anti-Corruption Court in the so-called "golden eggs" case. The defendants include a former head of a Ministry of Defence procurement department, the owner and directors of supplier companies, and a private individual.

According to the case as described in the available reporting, Ministry of Defence food purchases in 2022–2023 were made through contractors providing catering organisation services. The procurement catalogue contained 409 items, and the price of a food package was calculated using all catalogue entries and average prices. On 40 of the 409 items, whose prices were inflated, about 1.2 billion hryvnias, or roughly half of the general supply value, was concentrated. By contrast, 27 product types with artificially lowered prices were supplied to the Armed Forces for only 3.6 million hryvnias, or 0.14% of their value. Seasonal goods were listed at anomalously low prices, including 8 hryvnias per kilogram for cherries and 10 hryvnias per kilogram for strawberries and blackcurrants, but military units could not order them because the contracts had been concluded after the relevant ordering periods had ended.

Two supplier companies controlled by the same owner allegedly received more than 733 million hryvnias from the state budget between August and December 2022. Part of the funds was moved out as dividends and repayable financial assistance to affiliated companies; reporting also said the owner may have used some of the money to buy hotels in Croatia and other real estate. A former Ministry of Defence official allegedly failed to notice the price manipulations while signing supply contracts.

The pre-trial investigation opened in January 2023, after journalists compared procurement prices with supermarket prices and found popular products being bought at two to three times the store price. Five suspects were notified in April 2025, the investigation was completed in September 2025, and in July 2025 a court placed the supplier owner, Тетяна Глиняну, under in-person arrest in absentia; she was named the main suspect. In August 2024, BEB detectives seized more than 4.7 million euros of unaccounted cash in a related tax-evasion investigation, and the funds were placed under arrest by a court decision within the NABU and SAPO investigation.

كيف تصفه المصادر الأوكرانية

Ukrainian outlets frame the case mainly through NABU and SAPO procedural steps: the referral of the indictment to the Higher Anti-Corruption Court and the defendants' roles in Ministry of Defence procurement. Reporting emphasises the mechanics of the catalogue scheme and the diversion of over 733 million hryvnias through dividends and financial aid to affiliated firms. Ukrainian coverage also foregrounds the political fallout of the January 2023 procurement scandal — the removal of the then defence minister, the deputy minister and the procurement department head — and highlights that media scrutiny led participants to lower prices on 11 in-demand products, preventing a further 788 million hryvnias from being taken from the budget.

كيف تصفه المصادر الدولية

No international coverage of the story was supplied; all listed reports are from Ukrainian-language Ukrainian media and agencies. The framing in those reports is factual and procedural, drawing on NABU and SAPO announcements about the indictment, the criminal-law classification and the court referral, without explicit political labelling.

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The main divergence is over the scale of overpricing. In January 2023 the Ministry of Defence denied reports that products were being bought two to three times more expensively than in stores, calling the reports misleading and manipulative of information. Journalists' comparison of procurement sums with supermarket prices indicated that popular products were priced two to three times higher.

الخلفية

The scheme operated through a 409-item catalogue whose total value was calculated from all entries and average prices, enabling suppliers to manipulate the prices of individual items. Two supplier companies controlled by a single owner received over 733 million hryvnias from the state budget between August and December 2022. The pre-trial investigation opened in January 2023; five suspects were formally notified in April 2025, investigators completed the probe in September 2025, and a court placed the supplier owner under arrest in absentia in July 2025. The actions are classified under parts of Articles 191, 15 and 209 of Ukraine's Criminal Code. The crime was uncovered with the assistance of the State Audit Service of Ukraine.