Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defence ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million (€36.82 million) earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected on an anti-corruption platform in 2019, long before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Both the president and his aides have portrayed the recent firings of top officials, notably that of Ivan Bakanov, former head of the State Security Service, in July 2022, as proof of their efforts to crack down on graft.
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