The State Audit Service has received a request from law enforcement agencies to conduct an audit of public procurement by companies affiliated with the companies of the family of Lviv businessman Ihor Hrynkevych and his son Roman. This was reported to Kommersant Ukrainian by 
the head of the State Audit Service, Alla Basalaeva.
As you know, Ihor and Roman Hrynkevych are suspected of corruption schemes in defence procurement.
“We have received a request from law enforcement agencies to conduct additional state financial control measures. In total, we are talking about 23 procurement audits in the Hrynkevych case,”
– said Alla Basalaeva.
She explained that law enforcement agencies often engage the State Audit Service’s experts to conduct a highly specialised and objective study of financial transactions under investigation.
The Hrynkevych case
on 29 December 2023, law enforcement officers detained Ihor Hrynkevych, a Lviv businessman and one of the largest suppliers to the Ministry of Defence, who tried to bribe one of the heads of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
In early 2024, the State Bureau of Investigation notified the businessman that he was suspected of embezzling money for the military.
At the same time, information began to circulate on social media that the businessman’s son, Roman Hrynkevych, was investing a lot of money in the career of his future wife, Sonia Morozyuk, and gifts for her, and that these could be his father’s funds.
Roman Hrynkevych himself wrote on Instagram on 9 January that his family’s activities were in line with the current legislation, and called the scandal “ordered”.
on 18 January, the DBR put the son of the Lviv businessman on the wanted list. On 22 January, Roman Hrynkevych was detained in Odesa while trying to cross the border. On the same day, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv arrested him with the possibility of bail of UAH 500 million.
Currently, the father and son Hrynkevychs remain in a pre-trial detention centre in Kyiv.
According to the SBI, 5 people have been detained, namely the two Hrynkevychs (father and son) and three employees of their companies. In mid-January 2024, they were notified of suspicion of creating and participating in a criminal organisation and of seizing another’s property by breach of trust (fraud) committed under martial law, on a particularly large scale, by a criminal organisation (Article 190(5), Article 255(1) and 255(1)(2) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The criminal actions were classified as fraud, as they were organised with the aim of seizing other people’s property (funds) through the conclusion of contracts with the Ministry of Defence by a number of controlled contractors for the purchase of goods, including clothing for the military. As a result, products of inadequate quality were delivered that could not be used for their intended purpose, which is qualified as fraud and breach of trust.
Amid the scandal, the Ministry of Defence cancelled all contracts with Hrynkevych’s companies, the last being Trade Lines Retail. And Hrynkevych’s wife, Professor Svitlana Hrynkevych, resigned from Lviv Polytechnic. Students demanded that the woman be suspended from the educational process for the period of pre-trial investigation of the case against her husband.
TheHrynkevychs’ case still does not involve any representatives of the Ministry of Defence, despite the fact that contracts were signed with the businessmen’s companies and advance payments were made.