Ukraine’s prosecutor general has uncovered a massive bribery and fraud case in which a private company supplied unusable mines and dangerous ammunition that did not meet technical specifications to the front lines, causing nearly $70 million in losses to Ukrainian taxpayers. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko announced on Friday that a Ukrainian company pocketed approximately $70 million in taxpayer money while supplying defective mines to the army.
A previously unknown private company signed five major government contracts with the Ministry of Defence, the Naval Procurement Agency, and the Logistics Command to supply various types of mines and ammunition worth a total of approximately 10 billion hryvnia (€200 million). However, according to the investigation, the company did not deliver the majority of the ordered products, while spending the advance payments, and the mines that were delivered were technically unsuitable for combat conditions. They did not contain enough explosives or did not work properly and often exploded in the hands of soldiers.
