All this happened with the help of a special “scheme” – Russian companies exported agricultural products according to quotas, that is, with reduced or no customs duties at all. Applications from companies were considered by a special commission, which included former Ukrainian politicians who decided to cooperate with the occupation authorities. Volodymyr Saldo finally “approved” these decisions. He is the former mayor of Kherson, whom Vladimir Putin first appointed as acting head of the administration, and later as “governor” of the Kherson region.
All this was found out with the help of an array of documents from the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region, which the journalists of the Radio Liberty “Schemes” project received from the Ukrainian hacker association KibOrg.
The investigators analyzed these data, verified them, tracked the routes by which Ukrainian grain was taken abroad, where exactly, and also found out who was behind it. For example, one of the Russian exporting companies turned out to be connected with the construction of Vladimir Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik.
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