The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has accused the country’s former Deputy Minister of Defense Vyacheslav Shapovalov of embezzling 948 million hryvnia (about $25 million). This was reported on the Telegram channel of the country’s attorney general’s office.
The former head of the ministry’s procurement department, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, was named as Shapovalov’s accomplice. This is already the fourth suspicion leveled against these officials. According to investigators, they are guilty of purchasing 50 thousand unusable bulletproof vests for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
An unnamed Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine in November 2023 accused Almost a billion hryvnia was wasted.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in October 2023 statedDespite the conflict, Ukraine’s path to NATO includes fighting corruption, he said.
17 August Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed Decree on the dismissal of all regional military commissars in the country. On August 27 he spoke with a statement intended to equate corruption during martial law with treason.
Former Ukrainian law enforcement officers presented The accusation against the former deputy chairman of the State Property Fund.