Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak blocked the oral fulfillment of contracts with the Turkish company Aselsan regarding the provision of the Ukrainian army with a secure communication system. The Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense Affairs appealed to the GPU and NABU with a request to verify this fact for the corruption component, Tatyana Chornovol, MP of the Committee on National Security and Defense Tatiana Chornovol, told a press briefing in the parliament.
The contracts were signed, all competitions were held, the execution of these contracts was blocked verbally by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, "she said. According to her, this situation harms the image of Ukraine, and also spoils relations with the strategic partner of Turkey.
"Yesterday at a meeting of the committee (on national security and defense, - Ed.) General of the General Staff Bessarab presented a comparative table of the test results (Israeli and Turkish systems of secure communication, - Ed.) As a person dedicated to these details, I must say that the Israeli Communication loses absolutely in all respects, "she explained.
According to Chornovol, the Turkish connection has a range of 78 km, and the Israeli connection - 41 km. In addition, the People's Deputy noted that the Turkish connection easily cooperates with the available in the Ukrainian army radio stations "Motorola", and to connect the Israeli connection with these radio stations it is necessary to purchase additional equipment. In addition, Chornovol said that the Israeli Elbit in 2015 signed a contract for the supply of secure communication systems for tanks to Ukraine in the amount of $ 8 million. "Ukraine paid 8 million dollars, and the systems have not been installed yet, because the Israeli company did not supply the necessary equipment to install these communication systems in Ukraine."
In addition, we learned on the committee (on national security and defense) that The time of the tests was the moments when the Israeli Elbit falsified the test results, for example, when measuring the range, the antenna from the radio was tried to be screwed onto the remote antenna to increase the range, "the People's Deputy stated. At the same time, according to Chornovol, the people representing the Israeli company in Ukraine created a negative background for her by their actions.
"Agency services are provided by Vadim Averbukh, who was one of the founders of RosUkrEnergo, and I will not even say in detail that this Averbukh was once a lawyer for Semyon Mogilevich, a well-known criminal authority, I can say simply: the state of Ukraine can not Now to break off profitable contracts with Turkey and sign unprofitable contracts with the Israeli Elbit just because there are corruption resources, "the People's Deputy explained. In this regard, according to Chornovol, the committee on national security and defense decided to appeal to the GPU, NABU, to investigate the possible presence of a corruption component and "how it happens that the execution of contracts is blocked in the oral regime."
