The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine conducted unplanned inspections of food warehouses in the military units of Ukraine and found a food shortage of more than UAH 50 million.
This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the country, Rustem Umyerov.
"The team continues unscheduled inspections of warehouses with products in military units. They discovered a shortage of food by more than 50 million hryvnias. We record violations, we deal with each case separately," he wrote.
According to the results of inspections last week, the supplier of some military units was changed.
Umerov thanked the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the Prosecutor Generalʼs Office "for coordinated cooperation and professional work", and also announced other news.
- In 2023, the Ministry of Defense was involved in procurement scandals several times. In January, against the background of scandals, the director of the procurement department, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, and the deputy minister of defense, Vyacheslav Shapovalov, were dismissed — they were informed of suspicions in three cases. In addition, the investigators of the National Police informed Shapovalovʼs adviser about the suspicion of misappropriation of more than 1.7 billion UAH intended for the purchase of goods for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- After the scandals, the Ministry of Defense created a special department to prevent corruption in defense procurement.