In August 2025, the State Enterprise "Diia" held a young for the acquisition of a fancy of software program and {hardware} instruments "Sovereign Synthetic Intelligence Manufacturing unit" value UAH 227.5 million. The winner was LAN TEK LLC with a proposal of UAH 225.891 million.
In August 2025, the State Enterprise "Diia" introduced a young for the procurement of the "Sovereign Synthetic Intelligence Manufacturing unit" software program and {hardware} advanced with an anticipated worth of UAH 227.5 million. LLC "LAN TEK" received with a bid of UAH 225.891 million. Such a major procurement quantity and a discount in value of solely 2 million hryvnias from the anticipated quantity attracts consideration and forces a better have a look at the tender contributors, writes UNN.
A whole bunch of thousands and thousands in two weeks: how Diia's tender was performed
The announcement of the open tender by SE "Diia" was printed on August 7, 2025. The topic of the procurement was the "Sovereign Synthetic Intelligence Manufacturing unit" software program and {hardware} advanced with an anticipated worth of UAH 227,525,000. The deadline for submitting tender proposals, bearing in mind adjustments to the documentation, was set for August 19, which is barely 12 calendar days.
For an everyday procurement, this could possibly be a formality, however on this case, it considerations a extremely advanced high-tech advanced: server tools, specialised graphics accelerators, community infrastructure, knowledge storage, software program for managing computing clusters, and, seemingly, customized integration.
It’s apparent that the technical complexity of the topic of the tender and the extraordinarily tight deadlines narrowed the potential of participation within the tender and created privileged circumstances for the winner. By the best way, it can’t be dominated out that LLC "LAN TEK" may have had entry to details about the preparation of the tender and was in a position to put together prematurely.
In any case, in accordance with the tender necessities, firms with a confirmed excessive stage of partnership with server tools producers; specialised certificates for personnel; and letters of affirmation from producers of key parts, together with international firms akin to Nvidia, may take part within the bidding.
Formally, this seems to be like a priority for high quality. The truth is, such strict necessities are a traditional device for narrowing competitors and guaranteeing the victory of a pre-selected firm. As a result of if the necessities have been shaped for a selected firm, different potential contributors wouldn’t have had time to gather the required bundle of paperwork.
Formally, a number of firms participated within the bidding, and the winner, LLC "LAN TEK", submitted the bottom bid: UAH 225,891,000. In second place was LLC "NETWAVE" with a value supply solely UAH 52,787 greater than the winner's. For a procurement of over UAH 225 million, such a distinction in value supply appears extra symbolic than an actual try and compete for the lot. Due to this fact, plainly the bidding was formal.
In consequence, on September 5, 2025, settlement No. 9051/25 was concluded between SE "Diia" (purchaser) and LLC "LAN TEK" (provider) with a validity interval till December 31, 2026.
"LAN TEK" and "Lantek": a path from Odesa port to Diia's mega-contract
The director of LLC "LAN TEK" is Serhii Finashkin. The final word beneficiary is Oleh Lytvyn from Odesa. This entrepreneur can be the founder, beneficiary, and head of the non-public enterprise "Lantek", which has additionally repeatedly participated in state IT procurements.
PE "Lantek" has repeatedly come below the scrutiny of journalists. For instance, in accordance with media experiences, a court docket in Izmail is contemplating a case relating to the port's buy of laptop tools at inflated costs. In line with the investigation, the enterprise allegedly overpaid greater than UAH 983,000 after an official accepted PE "Lantek"'s industrial supply with out market evaluation. Nonetheless, regardless of the felony proceedings, the corporate concluded different contracts value greater than UAH 131 million throughout 2025.
The corporate "Lantek" was additionally talked about in an investigation by the "Nashi Hroshi" program in 2021. In line with journalists, the State Statistics Service ordered software program updates and digital maps for the inhabitants census for nearly UAH 30 million, and the execution of a part of the work value UAH 2.75 million was entrusted to PE "Lantek", furthermore, within the mode of further related providers towards the background of present contracts.
So, it isn’t the primary time that Oleh Lytvyn's firm wins multi-million tenders for IT providers and tools, whereas in at the very least one case, regulation enforcement officers instantly converse of a possible overestimation of the price by virtually 1,000,000 hryvnias. In opposition to this background, the victory of LLC "LAN TEK", related to the identical beneficiary, in one among Diia's largest tenders, appears not unintentional, however a logical continuation of the historical past of entry to "digital" funds flows.
IE "I-AR-SI", ERC group schemes for billions and connections with Russia
One other participant seems on the horizon of this story – the international enterprise "I-AR-SI". Formally, it isn’t a celebration to the settlement with SE "DIIA". Nonetheless, in accordance with UNN sources, after receiving a 30% advance cost below the contract, LLC "Lan Tek" transferred all funds to the "I-AR-SI" group of firms.
In a lot of felony proceedings, this international enterprise seems as a "entrance firm" within the chain of IT tools provide for state our bodies for value overestimation, and as a device for "cashing out" funds.
In line with registration knowledge, IE "I-AR-SI" is managed by Austrian "ERC Holding GmbH" (90%) and Ukrainian enterprise fund "Forint" (10%). The beneficiaries are Serhii Artiukh, Leonid Stolnikov, Andrii Dehoda.
In 2019, "I-AR-SI" was included within the ranking of the 200 largest firms in Ukraine by income as one of many key gamers within the electronics distribution market.
The truth is, "I-AR-SI" is the central firm of ERC – a bunch of firms within the discipline of distribution of laptop and workplace tools, software program, digital picture and video tools, and so forth. In retail, the corporate is represented by the MOYO model (LLC "NRP"). The group additionally consists of PJSC "EUROTERMINAL" and JSC "AltBank".
The beneficiaries of most firms are the aforementioned Artiukh, Stolnikov, and Andrii Dehoda. On the similar time, within the media, ERC is named the enterprise of the Dehoda brothers – Andrii and Oleksandr.
It must be famous that some firms from the ERC group have already been on the heart of scandals. They have been accused of tax evasion, and of buying and selling family home equipment by a personal "fuel" firm related to NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine".
By the best way, the family equipment retailer with the "Naftogaz" sticker continues to be working. And it appeared in the course of the interval when Oleksiy Chernyshov, suspected within the "Midas" case relating to corruption within the vitality sector, headed NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine".
It’s attention-grabbing that along with Serhii Artiukh and Leonid Stolnikov, among the many homeowners of "AltBank", which is a part of the ERC group, there was a sure Ihor Olehovych Volokh. Along with Ukrainian citizenship, he additionally had Cypriot and Belarusian citizenship.
From 2005 to 2007, Ihor Volokh was the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisen Financial institution Aval. In 2007-2014, he labored because the First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Common Financial institution, and from 2016, he headed the Board of Neos Financial institution, which ultimately grew to become "AltBank" when Dehoda and his companions purchased the financial institution from Mykhailo Fridman. On December 21, 2020, Ihor Volokh was dismissed from the place of Chairman of the Board at his personal request, however for a while he remained a co-owner of the financial institution. As of now, Volokh is not among the many homeowners who’ve share packages bigger than 5%.
In flip, the international enterprise IE "I-AR-SI" is concerned in seven felony proceedings, together with these opened below Article 191 of the Prison Code of Ukraine (appropriation, embezzlement of property or seizure of it by abuse of official place).
In court docket supplies, the corporate is instantly described as a "entrance firm" in schemes of embezzlement of funds funds in IT tenders. For instance, in felony continuing No. 42023000000000246 dated 17.02.2023 relating to the embezzlement of UAH 10 million in tenders for IT providers and tools for the "Okhmatdyt" kids's hospital, investigators point out that the value of kit was inflated by 20-60%, and among the tools was bought "contraband" after which bought by IE "I-AR-SI", which ensured the conversion of funds into money and the sale of "schematic" VAT credit score.
"It was additionally established that within the interval 2020-2022, about UAH 30 million was transferred to the accounts of IE "I-AR-SI" by the required enterprise entities, of which about UAH 20 million was transformed into money by finishing up non-commodity operations," states one of many court docket choices.
The international enterprise additionally seems in case No. 42023000000000108 relating to one of many distributors of Apple tools in Ukraine. The felony continuing is said to alleged falsification of reporting to keep away from tax funds. Right here, IE "I-AR-SI" once more seems as a big provider, by which tons of of thousands and thousands of hryvnias of turnover cross with apparent substitution of nomenclature and non-commodity operations.
One other continuing, No. 52022000000000243, wherein "I-AR-SI" is concerned, is being investigated by the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) relating to SE "Heart of State Land Cadastre" and LLC "Firm KIT". In line with the investigation, servers have been bought from a international vendor for about UAH 3.7-3.45 million, resold to IE "I-AR-SI" with a 35% markup, after which bought by SE "Heart of State Land Cadastre" with a margin of over 279-412% on every unit of kit.
"I-AR-SI" additionally seems in felony continuing No. 42021140000000229 relating to the embezzlement of state funds by officers of the State Enterprise "Lviv Worldwide Airport named after Danylo Halytskyi" in a young for the procurement of IT tools. IE "I-AR-SI" seems as a entrance firm within the provide chain.
So the scheme is identical in every single place: a bunch of interconnected IT firms enters state tenders, artificially narrows competitors, inflates costs, and a "entrance firm" essentially seems within the provide chain, by which superprofits are withdrawn and fictitious VAT credit are shaped.
Russian path and dangers to crucial infrastructure
Most apparently, the international enterprise "I-AR-SI" can’t solely trigger monetary harm to the state within the type of unpaid taxes, but additionally pose a severe menace to nationwide safety.
As is already clear, this international firm is fascinated with contracts solely with state enterprises. What if these state enterprises are crucial? What if they’re on this firm solely within the context of entry to necessary info? What if this info can then fall into the arms of the enemy – the Russian Federation?
The Foremost Investigation Division of the SBU from 2021 to 2024 investigated felony continuing No. 42021000000000647, wherein Russian industrial buildings "Borlas group" and CJSC "RDTECH" are concerned. In line with the investigation, by their Ukrainian subsidiaries – LLC "RDTECH", "BSS Ukraine", "OS Consulting" and others – they applied and supported software program and {hardware} options for the NBU, the Ministry of Finance, Oschadbank, central authorities our bodies.
"Obtainable info signifies that JSC "RDTECH" can perform distant entry to company servers of a bunch of associated enterprise entities LLC "RDTECH", LLC "OS Consulting", LLC "BSS Ukraine", together with these concerned in technical help of software program and {hardware} built-in into info and telecommunication methods of state establishments, regulation enforcement businesses, telecommunication operators, banking establishments, and so forth., the place info with restricted entry circulates, the safety of which is required by present laws of Ukraine. As well as, officers of LLC "RDTECH", LLC "OS Consulting", LLC "BSS Ukraine" by utilizing particular software program by way of the Web, below the pretext of finishing up technical work and upkeep, periodically achieve entry to the knowledge methods of the above-mentioned establishments," states the court docket supplies.
Investigators point out that such entry to databases and knowledge and telecommunication methods of crucial infrastructure allowed the Russian aspect to acquire confidential info, together with within the pursuits of Russian regulation enforcement businesses, and on the similar time to shadow the Ukrainian financial system by a community of "fictitious" counterparties. Finally, the case was closed, however it’s attention-grabbing that among the many "entrance firms" talked about by the investigators, there’s additionally IE "I-AR-SI".
In opposition to this background, the story of the "Sovereign Synthetic Intelligence Manufacturing unit" takes on a brand new shade, as a result of it isn’t simply concerning the buy of one other batch of servers, however concerning the foundation of the state AI cluster, which can course of large quantities of knowledge of Ukrainians, companies, and the state.
It’s apparent that if firms with a Russian path or buildings that regulation enforcement officers already suspect of schemes for withdrawing funds seem within the chain of implementation of such methods, this creates not solely corruption dangers, but additionally a direct menace to state safety.
Recall
Earlier, MP Oleksandr Fediienko said {that a} file with private knowledge of about 20 million Ukrainians was present in open entry.
MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak commented on the assertion of his colleague Oleksandr Fediienko concerning the knowledge leak of about 20 million Ukrainians, stating that it was an previous leak, from an previous leak of the "Diia" database of three.5 million rows. "Diia" itself denied the details about knowledge leaks.
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