Hladkovsky's son files lawsuit against Bihus.Info journalists

According to information posted on the court's website, the third defendant is NGO TOM 14.

The report notes that the composition of the court has been determined, and the case will be heard by Judge Volodymyr Hrebeniuk.

It also says that the subject of the claim is the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.

On February 25, journalists of the Nashi Hroshi (Our Money) program disclosed a "long-term scheme of laundering hundreds of millions of hryvnias" from Ukraine's defense sector. According to journalists, Ihor Hladkovsky is allegedly involved in the scheme. Later, Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) reported that firms appearing in the investigation of Bihus.Info journalist Lesia Ivanova are the objects of inquiry by NABU detectives.

Oleh Hladkovsky rejected allegations of corruption and appealed to the NABU and the Prosecutor General's Office with the request to verify the facts contained in the journalist investigation. He also requested that during the probe into the investigated facts he be suspended as first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and chairman of the interdepartmental commission on military and technical cooperation and export control. President Petro Poroshenko supported the request.

Subsequently, Ukroboronprom reported that Director of Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau Oleksiy Babich and Director of Izium Instrument-Making Plant Serhiy Filonenko had also been removed from office.

The Verkhovna Rada instructed the interim investigative commission probing corruption in the army to verify as soon as possible the facts of abuse at the Ukroboronprom State Concern and the involvement of officials in this abuse.

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