Gaidai, who previously headed the Lugansk Regional Military Administration, the detectives of the National Anti -Corruption Bureau of Ukraine are suspected of involvement in financial fraud around the purchase of drones and electronic warfare funds.
“The government decided to send the president a draft order on the dismissal of the head of the Mukachevsky district state administration Sergei Gaidai,” Sviridenko wrote.
NABU reported that the defendants (the current people's deputy, managers The district and city military civil administrations and military personnel of the National Guard) could conclude state contracts with supplier enterprises at obviously overstated prices, and up to 30% of the amount returned to participants in the scheme.
In addition to Gaidai, the People’s Deputy of the “servant of the people” Alexei Kuznetsov also appears in the case, the chairman of the parliamentary faction “Servant of the people” David Arahamia noted. The Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko informed that the National Guard, who, according to investigators, can be involved in the scheme, were removed from their posts.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in the evening handling, whose transcasses were published, said that we are talking about fraud on the procurement of the electronic warfare and FPV, which he called “completely immoral.”
“There must be a complete and fair responsibility for this,” the president emphasized.
Context
Gaidai s October 2019 years In March of 2023, he held the post of head of the Lugansk Regional State (Military) Administration.
LB.ua reported March 14, 2023 that the likely resignation of Gaidai from the post of head of the Lugansk Ov It is associated with the possible appointment of his ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan. On the same day, the Cabinet of Ministers agreed on the dismissal of Gaidai, the next day Zelensky signed a decree on the dismissal of Gaidai “according to the application submitted to them.”
Gaidai himself said then that The situation with his dismissal is “a kind of rotation.” “Most likely, a military man will be put in my place. And they will be sent to another“ front ”… In this case, I hope that this will be a diplomatic work in a very important direction … Most likely, it will be Kazakhstan,” he said.
However, Gaidai did not become the ambassador of Kazakhstan. According to the media, Kazakhstan did not agree on his appointment for this post, since the Kazakh authorities want to see a professional diplomat. Officially, the foreign policy department of Kazakhstan did not comment on this information, but they said that “the receiving party has the right to refuse to agree on the applied candidacy without explanation.”
The head of the Mukachevsky RGA Zelensky appointed Gaidai on March 15, 2024. Gaidai was already the chairman of the Mukachevsky RGA-from September 2015 to November 2018.
