/reeve.gif)
https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatsk ... o/7000608/Corruption schemes repair MiG
In July 2013, as stated in the contract,
Croatia to maintain the fleet of its air force has purchased from Ukraine the MiG-21bis,
which, according to Ukrainian documents previously belonged to Yemen,
and then defended at Hospederia Odesaviaremservice.
A contract worth 132,9 million Croatian kunas (about $ 22.5 million),
enclosed by the Croatian side with the UkrSpetsExport,
involved the repair of Odesaviaremservice five MiG-21bis and two training-combat MiG-21УМ
of the Croatian air force and five former Yemeni fighters.
Odessa, the company has delayed the time of execution of this contract,
completing it by 2015 when the contract deadline 30 July 2014.
The Croatian side was dissatisfied with the quality of work
and imposed on the company a fine of 2.7 million kunas for the failure time.
Transferred to the Croatian side,
the aircraft were in poor condition,
had cracks in the airframe,
and the actual residual life amounted to no more than 100-200 flight hours.
In fact, these cars in Odessa have not been a major overhaul.
In March 2016 the Croatian military police
launched an investigation against the Ministry of defence of Croatia
on the fact of sale in Ukraine of aircraft.
The investigation revealed
the use in the repair of old aircraft components from Bulgaria, Algeria and the former Soviet Union,
which did not correspond to the technical documentation provided by the Ukrainian side.
December 2016, two employees of the Ministry of defense of Croatia was accused
of accepting bribes from the Ukrainian state enterprise UkrSpetsExport
in return for assistance in closing a deal for fighter.
Writes Jutarnji List, a thorough examination of the aircraft revealed
that the Ukrainian side is completely falsified documentation.
The investigation revealed that in fact
the five MiG-21bis does not have any relation to Yemen,
as are former aircraft of the Bulgarian air force,
discontinued operation in 1998 and decommissioned in 2001.
As these aircraft appeared in Odessa – remained unknown,
because Bulgaria officially reported on the disposal of five aircraft to NATO.
/
https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=
POSTED: 05/02/2018
Croatia wants to return four inaccurate combat aircraft MiG 21
and asks the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to replace them
with four correct aircraft
with the state guarantee of Ukraine,
the Jutarnji List informs well-informed sources of the Ministry of Defense.
These are aircraft numbers 131, 132, 134 and 135
that Croatia bought from Ukraine as part of the overhaul and upgrading of the combat squadron,
and three and a half years after the delivery,
the Croatian Air Force declared it inaccurate and useless.
This is the final confirmation of the largest military affair
in the history of Croatia with the procurements of military weapons revealed
by the Jutarnji List and which we have been writing for several years now.
Arranged agreement
According to available information,
Croatia has paid about 8 million euros in aircraft from Ukrspecexport.
As we know, last week, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense sent an official note that our Ministry of Defense proposes this solution.
This means that Croatia no longer has 12,
but only eight fighter planes,
of which, as we know, most are in a very bad condition
and the HRZ has hardly any aircraft
to carry out air defense missions under the NATO command.
Namely, the repaired airplanes continue to dump oil,
navigation systems are not working etc.
and the deadline for the overhaul has expired.
The issue of migon migration was initiated for a recent visit by Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak to Zagreb
who after talks with Minister Damirom Krstičević and Prime Minister Andrei Plenković said
that the 2014 agreement "is not fully executed"
on the "damage of the Croatian side".
This Croatian demand for Ukraine and official confirmation
of the catastrophic overhaul of Croatian combat aircraft in Ukraine
paid for 132.9 million kuna,
as well as evidence of the serious criminal acts
that the Ukrainian institute committed
and endangered the lives of Croatian military pilots,
but also undermined NATO's fighter readiness -And!
The word four of the five migs bought by Croatia from Ukraine were delivered in May 2014
and according to a contract with the Ukrainian institute they had to fly by 2023,
but "fell" in 2016.
Shortly after their arrival in Croatia they started on problems.
It was found that "tapped" numbers on the aircraft hull and the documentation was fake
and in March 2016 grounded and a large investigation into their purchase was opened.
The Bulgarian police requested assistance from the investigation,
as it was found that the cargo hulls were sold to Croatia, originating in Bulgaria.
Bulgarian authorities have replied to Croatia that the troops used by the Bulgarian army until 1998,
and three years later they had been stamped.
Five years after being written off,
the carcasses were sold to the Ukrainian bureau that bought them for parts.
But it is still unknown how they found themselves in Ukraine because Bulgaria officially reported to NATO that it had destroyed them.
It has also been established that the four aircraft in dispute
have no resources for an additional 850 hours of crash,
according to the Ukrainian documentation submitted to Croatia,
but only for 100 to 200 hours.
Under the agreement of the Ministry of Defense and the Ukrainian Institute,
each MiG had to fly for the next 10 years or 850 hours.
The investigation also found that the carcasses were about five years older
than what is written in the documentation.
Furthermore, engines in two of the five purchased aircraft are unknown origin.
Namely, their serial numbers do not correspond to those
in the documentation provided by Ukrainian Ukrspecexport Institute to the Ministry of Defense.
It is about engines whose origin is also Bulgarian and the hulls are sold in Ukraine.
The documentation does not match either the built-in wings that are from Algeria.
But apart from the airplane,
it is questionable to buy spare parts for refurbished MIGs that are contracted in parallel with the aircraft.
MORH spent $ 12 million for a huge amount of parts,
and the list of required parts exactly coincided with the state of the Ukranian bureau in Odessa.
According to individual military experts' claims,
a large amount of unnecessary parts were purchased.
But obviously this is not enough because the Air Force Technical Center
has launched a new supply of large spare parts for migs,
according to unofficial information worth about 20 million kuna,
and the query was sent to Ukraine as well.
Our interlocutors argue that they are ordering parts
that would not be needed for the next 10 years
to have the overhaul of migs been done properly.
