Meat Mismanagement, Paid With Taxpayer Money

They buy meat and let it spoil. They buy cars and let them shine. Taxpayer money pays for both.



Enjoy another report on how Derzhkomrezerv operates.

In 2008, the Tymoshenko government imported various kinds of meat to push the overblown local prices down. To promote the policy, Mykhailo Pozhyvanov, then chief of Derzhkomrezerv, posed in front of the cameras, choking on fried chickens.

For some reason, some of that meat never made it to retail stores.

An STB crew pays a visit to a Derzhkomrezerv partner business that stores minced poultry imports in its refrigerator warehouse. The shipment stored there, worth about $250,000 in 2008 prices, had reached its expiry date last summer. Derzhkomrezerv then tried to resell it to a Donetsk company, despite a ruling by the center for disease control that the meat be destroyed.

Volodymyr Zakharenko, owner of the warehouse, notified the prosecutor's office. And guess what? Police and Derzhkomrezerv raided the warehouse looking for pork. Zakharenko confirmed storing a shipment of pork and even produced some unsavory pictures of it. Yet the man agreed to release the shipment based on an invoice, not a search warrant.

Derzhkomrezerv did not immediately respond to STB’s request for comment.

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Despite Crisis, Govt Agency Stocks Up on Luxury Cars

Taxpayer money is a cheap commodity in Ukraine, as far as the government is concerned.

As Ukrainians struggle to make both ends meet, Obozrevatel tells another story of how much their government costs them.

At issue is the State Committee of Ukraine on the State Material Reserve, aka Derzhkomrezerv, the government agency that keeps a safety stock of food and fuel to be used in case of emergency.

Speaking of emergency, in late 2008 and early 2009, Derzhkomrezerv filled its reserves with durables other than those declared in its mission statement.

Derzhkomrezerv used state-owned company Resurspostach to buy/rent a splendid fleet of nine Toyotas, worth from $50,000 to $500,000.






Not bad for an organization deep in debt, and one that offers deep discounts by holding less-than-open bids to sell its inventory once it nears expiry date.

In an interview with Obozrevatel’s Tetyana Chornovil, the vice chairman of Derzhkomrezerv, Mykola Synkovsky, admitted no wrongdoing.

I bet he has a picture of Tymoshenko or Yushchenko hanging on his office wall. Well, maybe he keeps a Yanukovych somewhere in the back office.

What he really needs is The Judgment of Cambyses, the painting that every Ukrainian official must have.

Sources:
http://obozrevatel.com/news/2009/3/26/294011.htm