24.08.2024
Corruption
Corruption schemes of the Bokaryus Institute of Forensic Expertise and earning money on falsification of research results

Today, forensic experts play a key role in the life of our country. For example, they conduct commodity examinations when selecting winners in public procurement to ensure that the budget is spent as rationally as possible. However, are experts always interested in providing the right conclusions?
For example, experts of the National Scientific Center “Bokarius Institute of Forensic Expertise” of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (NSC IFE) have already been suspected of falsifying the results of the study in favor of a third party – a designated participant in public procurement. Thus, in 2023, a money laundering scandal broke out over food for the Armed Forces. Then it became known that before signing the same tender with eggs at 17 UAH, the Ministry of Defense requested a study from the Bokarius Research Center for IES. The latter reported that the market price of one egg was UAH 9 per piece, while the real price was much lower.
After that, the leadership of the Institute changed. Experts from the research center were delighted with the new leadership, but later it became clear that with the change of personnel, no global innovations took place. The corruption schemes that worked before the innovations remained in place afterwards.
It became known that now the “classical” schemes of illegal enrichment are operating in the ICE, namely:
- write-off of fuel and lubricants (only in the last year, according to the open data of the public procurement site “Prozorro”, the ICE NAS purchased fuel in coupons for UAH 2,050,000)
- and the purchase of office equipment at inflated prices (over the past year, computer equipment was purchased for UAH 4,400,000).
Each of these procurements involves the same participants. There is no competition, so there are no bids or auctions. The winner is always obvious.
Moreover, we can only guess at the amount of illegal cash that passes through the Scientific Research Center of ICE during identical procurements and falsification of examination results.
But who cares? The law enforcement agencies still do not notice the dubious activities of the management of the ICE, or simply do not want to notice.
Therefore, we are already preparing relevant materials within which we will demand that the security forces initiate criminal proceedings over these facts, conduct real investigative actions and bring everyone involved to justice.
It should be reminded that corruption schemes are flourishing not only on the territory of the Bokaryus Institute of International Relations. Earlier, we wrote that the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine found a forensic expert among the employees of its subordinate institution, Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise (headed by Oleksandr Ruvin), who does not even have a professional higher education.
Instead, he freely draws up expert opinions on project documentation in terms of ensuring the mechanical resistance and stability of construction objects with consequence class CC1, that is, objects where people are permanently or temporarily staying and the condition of these objects, according to the “grief expert,” can cost them their lives.
The head of the Institute, Ruvin, also has a corruption trail behind him.
In addition, it later turned out that Nazar Sheptytskyi, the stepson of Ruvin’s chief forensic expert, was served with a notice of suspicion by NABU detectives regarding the trading of senior positions in the structure of the State Customs Service.
According to our materials, the investigating judge of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv, by decision No. 761/27115/24 of August 07, 2024, ordered the authorized persons of the Security Service of Ukraine to enter information into the URPI and launch an investigation. But, we assure you, this is not the end.
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