The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has added information from a journalistic investigation to a criminal case regarding the embezzlement of funds for the construction of fortifications commissioned by the Poltava Regional Military Administration (RMA), which may involve the current head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Filip Pronin. The attached materials mention the organization of a scheme to evade mobilization.
Source: OBOZREVATEL
This was stated by NABU in response to ZN.ua. It is noted that these publications were added to case No. 52025000000000498 from 03.09.2025 under signs of criminal offenses provided for in Part 5 of Article 191, Part 4 of Article 368, Part 3 of Article 368, Part 3 of Article 369, Part 1 of Article 14, Part 5 of Article 191, Part 1 of Article 15, Part 5 of Article 191, Part 1 of Article 114-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In September 2025, journalists and MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak (“Holos”) published data regarding the embezzlement by the leadership of the Poltava RMA of UAH 200 million for the construction of fortifications in Donetsk region. At the time of the offenses, Filip Pronin was the head of the Poltava RMA; since January 2025, he has been serving as head of the State Financial Monitoring Service.
NABU is already investigating possible crimes during which Poltava companies sent employees to build fortifications in exchange for receiving “critical” status from the RMA. Meanwhile, the money for the work was recorded under completely different people, and the employees of these companies received exemptions from mobilization instead of salaries.
Journalists also claim that later Pronin may have organized a scheme for illegal mobilization evasion within the State Financial Monitoring Service. Investigators submitted a statement to NABU requesting the addition of new data that supplements suspicions of criminal offenses by the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Pronin (statement dated 13.10.2025 No. 55, registered with NABU on 15.10.2025 under No. 288/24899-01).
Recall that in February 2024, the Poltava RMA received the right to build fortifications in the Donetsk region. As a result, 16 contracts were concluded with ENK Construction for a total amount of over UAH 370 million.
In addition to the fact that due to martial law, procurements were carried out without transparent tenders, experts agreed that the constructed facilities do not meet the requirements of modern warfare. In particular, they lacked:
- top coverings (metal grids and/or mesh);
- arched anti-drone structures and concrete coverings;
- anti-explosion barriers at entrances (concrete slabs and/or sandbags);
- drainage systems;
- camouflage.
As a result, the built structures can only protect against small arms fire and mortar shell fragments but are vulnerable to drones, loitering munitions, guided bombs, or precision-guided munitions (FAB with UMKP and KAB). In addition, the cost of work was repeatedly increased, raising the total amount by UAH 70 million. Of this:
- over UAH 22 million were overpaid on barrier pyramids (purchased through the intermediary company “Primum Active”);
- UAH 21 million were written off as fictitious delivery;
- UAH 6.7 million were overpaid on lumber.
The total cost of fictitious goods and services could reach at least UAH 200 million. During investigative actions, 14 separate malicious cases were identified, including bribery, overstatement of work costs, fictitious contracts, and selling mobilization exemptions. The case figures named by Zheleznyak include:
- Filip Pronin – former head of Poltava RMA, now head of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine (he denies the charges and, from the parliamentary podium, showed photos of fortifications, which, according to Zheleznyak, depict a completely different site than mentioned in the investigation);
- Bohdan Korolchuk – first deputy head of the Financial Monitoring Service, previously Pronin’s deputy in Poltava RMA;
- Dmytro Kohut – current acting head of Poltava RMA, who, according to Zheleznyak, “follows the instructions of former regional leaders.”
Zheleznyak also pointed out that in the Poltava region there are over 50 real estate objects previously owned by a colonel-general of the Russian army. The assets were seized and transferred to ARMA, where Pronin previously worked. Meanwhile, when Volodymyr Kohut (who also previously worked at ARMA under Pronin) was acting head of Poltava RMA, according to the MP, the transfer of one of these objects to the Ukrainian military was blocked. Interestingly, control over the objects went to the company “Voyager P,” which, according to Zheleznyak, is close to Pronin and part of the same pool as the firms that built the fortifications.
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