{"id":314712,"date":"2025-08-03T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314712\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:59:14","slug":"ukraine-uncovers-major-corruption-scheme-in-defense-procurement-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314712\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine uncovers major corruption scheme in defense procurement \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NABU and the SABO said the scheme included<\/a> a serving member of parliament, regional officials, the head of a unit of the National Guard\u2019s military unit and a director of a company supplying drones. None of them were named in the statement.<\/p>\n

The corruption involved purchasing equipment at knowingly inflated prices<\/a> for which the participants illegally received 30 percent of the contract amount, according to the agencies. A similar approach was used in FPV drone procurement, the agencies said.<\/p>\n

The revelation by the anti-corruption agencies<\/a> comes after the Ukrainian leadership attempted to subject the oversight of the bodies to the politically appointed prosecutor general of Ukraine. Zelenskyy signed a bill into law on Thursday that\u00a0restored independence<\/a>\u00a0to the agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can only be zero tolerance for corruption, clear teamwork to expose corruption, and ultimately a fair sentence,” Zelenskyy wrote<\/a> on Telegram on Saturday. “It is important that anti-corruption institutions work independently, and the law adopted on Thursday<\/a> guarantees them all the opportunities for a real fight against corruption,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He called for full and fair accountability<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are counting on fair verdicts,\u201d Zelenskyy said in an official statement<\/a> late Saturday. He said only combat officers will hold leadership positions in all logistics units of the National Guard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy reinstated the independence of the NABU and the SAPO after domestic protests and a warning<\/a> from European Commission that Ukraine’s EU bid was put at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NABU and the SABO said the scheme included a serving member of parliament, regional officials, the head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[41010,1194,2575,473,2595,2000,299,23762,2597,5111,7061,657,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-314712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-accountability","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-corruption","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-logistics","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-parliament","18":"tag-procurement","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114965196773443864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}