Kyiv's Solomiansky district court has permitted detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) to have temporary access to documents of OJSC Kuznia na Rybalskom (Kyiv, earlier Leninska Kuznia (Lenin's Smith) to investigate into a case on purchase of armored vehicles at high price by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

According to the court ruling dated October 27, 2017, the court partially satisfied the petition of NABU detectives.

The court decided to provide temporary access to a group of NABU detectives to items and documents in the possession of the Leninska Kuznia plant, located at 26, Elektrykiv St. in Kyiv, with an opportunity to study them and make copies of them.

In particular, this is design documentation of the developer and manufacturer on the armored vehicle Triton-0103, documents on repair of this equipment; documents in which the production cost and the price of one unit of Triton are reflected, estimates for production of one unit of this equipment; information about suppliers, documents for the acquisition of units, aggregates, parts for the Triton armored vehicle.

The NABU is investigating the purchase four Triton vehicles with armament for UAH 59.5 million by of the State Border Guard Service in 2015.

As the detectives calculated, the cost of the equipment was overestimated, as in 2015 UAH 161.5 million was allocated for the needs of the Kharkiv border detachment - the recipient of these vehicles - to purchase 34 combat distance modules, which, in particular, are part of the armament of the Triton armored vehicles.

The cost of one combat remote module was to be UAH 4.75 million, but in fact the cost of one unit purchased was UAH 14.876 million.

According to the petition of the NABU, following the audit of the State Border Guard Service, these vehicles were purchased before putting them into operation - in violation of the government's decision on the rules of supplying weapons, military and special equipment.