Getting behind the numbers – Politicians and public tenders

According to Ukrainian anti-corruption NGOs, Ukrainian parliamentarians, their immediate families, or trading entities closely associated to the politicians, won public State tenders for UAH 4.1 billion during 2017.

To be clear, the statement in the above link outlines no methodology or sources from whence the claims are drawn.  A reader is left to conclude that the figures are extracted from ProZorro, or perhaps similar public procurement databases also.

Neither is it entirely clear as to the exact definition of immediate family members, so it is left for a reader to presume that similar family members equates to the qualification to that of e-declarations submissions.

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