Established last year, the State Rear Operator (DOT) was intended to elevate food supply standards for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and eradicate corruption, yet it is failing in its duties, placing the blame on suppliers. This was confirmed by a recent scandal involving alleged substandard canned meat supplies to one military unit. The publication “Apóstrofo” reached these conclusions in an analytical article.
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A week ago, DOT announced it was terminating its contract with the supplier “Trade Granite Invest” in the Donetsk region and prohibiting them from participating in tenders for a year due to the use of a revoked testing protocol for canned pork.
In reality, the contract termination with this supplier was triggered by an article from NGL, to which a military personnel reached out: he claimed that some canned goods were inedible and sent 10 different cans to the editorial office. As political expert Alexey Golobutsky pointed out, due to a lack of funds, the journalists ordered a laboratory analysis of only one can instead of a comprehensive analysis of the batch.
When NGL journalists received the laboratory results, it turned out that these canned goods fully met standards for 33 out of 36 parameters. They are safe for consumption and sale. However, the manipulative article twisted the findings, stating that the canned goods belonged in the trash, leading to DOT terminating the contract with the supplier.
In contrast, another company, LLC “Mit Prom,” which had a syringe found in its meat products, remained a supplier.
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“Apóstrofo” emphasizes the importance of a unified approach to food quality, which is still lacking. This allows DOT, led by Arsen Jumadilov, to make selective decisions regarding suppliers.
“Complaints about food quality from the military are not new; however, DOT has never acknowledged its responsibility for the situation. To summarize broadly, the food quality control system for the Armed Forces has not changed in recent years, yet this is precisely what DOT was supposed to address from the beginning of its operations, but has yet to do so,” the analytical article highlights.