A video of the August search of a person involved in the investigation into procurement fraud at the Ministry of Defense appeared on the Internet.

The corresponding video was obtained by the publication "Ukrainian Pravda".

It is noted that the footage shows the search of the person involved in the investigation into procurement fraud at the Ministry of Defense — ex-Deputy Minister of Defense Oleksandr Myronyuk. 

The law enforcement officers found almost a million dollars in his sofa.

The video captures the moment of withdrawal of funds during investigative actions, when a man, probably an investigator, takes out wads of money from a side alcove near a sofa or bed and piles them in a huge pile.

We will remind you that on August 31, 2022, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, now the ex-head of the state procurement department of the MoU, was searched.

The official was suspected of being involved in the case with the bulletproof vests.

It was then that information appeared that a huge sum of money was taken from the official, which was allegedly hidden in a sofa.

Later it became known that it was not about Khmelnytskyi, but about ex-deputy minister Oleksandr Myronyuk, who until his dismissal in 2021 was in charge of the procurement department.

This official also appears in the case of bulletproof vests.

During the searches, 17 million 78 thousand hryvnias, 400 thousand 100 dollars and 100 thousand 380 euros were found in Myronyuk's possession.

However, immediately after the searches, Myronyuk provided the court with a "document" that the money from the couch was not his.

The notarized statement, made a week after the searches, stated that in January 2022, all the seized money was lent to Myronyuk by 86-year-old Kharkiv resident Eleonora Duminsh. 

It should be noted that Duminsh is a relative of the founders of the Kharkiv Khado Holding, which, among other things, is engaged in the production of rifles.

In addition, since 2016, Eleonora Duminsh has been registered as an FOP for wholesale trade, and when registering, she indicated an e-mail and phone number belonging to "HADO".

It is this holding that has a long-standing working relationship with the state special exporter "Progres", in which Myronyuk was employed before and after working for the Ministry of Defense.

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