Ukraine Uncovers Another $40 Million in Weapons Fraud

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Ministry of Defense, together with law enforcement agencies, will continue to expose corrupt individuals within the framework of the program of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine regarding zero tolerance for corruption.
57% : "This is not the first example of the unwavering struggle of the new team of the Ministry of Defense against unscrupulous officials of the Ministry of Defense," the ministry said in a statement."The
51% : 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.
48% : Lyudmila Daragan, Ukraine's state secretary of the Ministry of Defense, and Oleksandr Bogomolov, director of the National Institute of Strategic Studies, signed a partnership and cooperation memorandum on Saturday to address key problems facing Ukraine's armed forces and other sectors of the defense forces.
46% : "The Ministry of Defense is currently carrying out a number of reforms, which are divided into stages and separate projects.
42% : 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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