Defendant in pornography case loses order from Kherson Regional State Administration

The Department of Civil Protection of the Kherson Regional State Administration has canceled a contract for the supply of anti-drone nets with an entrepreneur who was previously suspected of producing and selling pornography. The details of the termination are not disclosed, and the documents are promised to be made public after the end of martial law.

This was reported by Most.

According to media reports, the Department of Civil Protection and Defense of the Kherson Regional State Administration canceled the contract with a businesswoman from Lutsk, Natalia Borshchevych, who was supposed to supply anti-drone nets. Information about the contract termination was published in the Prozorro system.

It is not yet known what reasons led to the cancellation of the contract. All documents - both the contract itself and the protocol of its termination - will become public only 90 days after the end of martial law.

On September 12, the department headed by Yevhen Pisotskyi signed an agreement with Natalia Borshchevych for the supply of 317,240 m² of anti-drone nets worth UAH 6.3 million.

The journalists found out that the entrepreneur registered as an individual entrepreneur only at the end of July. In addition, in 2020, she was suspected of producing and distributing pornographic materials, and criminal proceedings were opened against her under Part 3 of Article 301 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

In a commentary to the publication, Borshchevych confirmed that she was selling mesh and offered her services to representatives of the regional state administration during her stay in Kherson. However, she did not specify whom she met and to whom she made the offer.

Cases of misappropriation of local budget funds during procurement are also common in Kherson region. In early September, a Kherson court arrested a part of the house of a company director suspected of embezzling city budget funds and forgery. The investigation found that in 2019, Khimekoprom won a tender to repair the roof of gymnasium No. 56, but some of the work was not completed, and the contractor provided false information in the certificates of completion.

In September, a judge overturned the acquittal of Pavlo Andriyevsky, a technical supervision engineer accused of facilitating the embezzlement of budget funds and forgery during the construction of outpatient clinics in Chongar and Shchaslyvtseve.

Анна Бальчінос