Ukraine Uncovers Another $40 Million in Weapons Fraud

Published on January 28, 2024

Ukraine’s National Police and Security Service on Ukraine (SBU), alongside the country’s Ministry of Defense, announced on Saturday they have uncovered an insider network that has been charged with embezzling almost $40 million in funds marked for weapons purchases. Five individuals who formed a suspected criminal organization have been served “notices of suspicion”—the first stage in Ukrainian legal proceedings—for “appropriation, embezzlement of property, or possession of it by abuse of official position,” the SBU said. Four of the suspects are current or former employees of the Ministry of Defense, including the head of the Department of Military and Technical Policy, Development of Weapons and Military Equipment of the Ministry of Defense, and the head and commercial director of the Lviv Arsenal company....

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