The SBU wanted to imprison the director of a design bureau for servicing the radar of a GUAM ally
The SBU wanted to imprison the director of the Zaporozhye design bureau “Iskra” for sending employees to Azerbaijan, where they serviced the radar of Ukraine’s ally in GUAM.
As stated in court documents, back in 2011, Iskra entered into a commission agreement with Ukrspetsexport, under the terms of which the Cossacks produced 4 sets of the modernized 80K6M radar station. They were sold to Belarus, and then somehow ended up in Azerbaijan.
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Like any contract for the supply of complex electronics, the contract for radars provided for their warranty service in the event of a breakdown or malfunction, and, as is known, Ukrainian military equipment and electronics supplied abroad break down regularly.
The director of the Iskra enterprise was forced to send employees on business trips to Azerbaijan to repair products for several years - until the SBU saw his activities in arranging business trips as a crime.
The intelligence service charged the director with intentional actions that entailed a violation of the established procedure for international transfers of goods subject to state export control.
An analysis of the materials examined convinced the court that none of the evidence offered by the prosecution and verified at the trial could be used to confirm the director’s guilt.
As a result, the head of the design bureau was acquitted, but, as they say, “a sediment remained” – including among the GUAM allies.
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