{"id":1248527,"date":"2025-06-18T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/slovakia-detains-defense-ministry-officials-on-suspicion-of-overpricing-ammunition-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:33:18","slug":"slovakia-detains-defense-ministry-officials-on-suspicion-of-overpricing-ammunition-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/slovakia-detains-defense-ministry-officials-on-suspicion-of-overpricing-ammunition-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia Detains Defense Ministry Officials on Suspicion of Overpricing Ammunition for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in Bratislava has uncovered a large-scale fraud involving state procurement in the field of military aid to Ukraine. Law enforcement officers conducted a special operation, during which eight people were detained, four of whom are current civil servants of the Slovak Ministry of Defense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eppo.europa.eu\/en\/media\/news\/slovakia-eppo-probes-alleged-misappropriation-eu74-million-destined-military-aid-to\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the press service<\/a> of the prosecutor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p> According to the investigation, the suspects participated in a scheme to falsify ammunition purchases for Ukraine &#8211; this involved unjustifiably inflated prices and violations of European Peace Fund (EPF) procedures. Total losses, according to preliminary estimates, amount to <strong>7.4 million euros.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> According to the prosecutor&#8217;s office, back in February-March 2022, Slovak officials submitted documents to the EPF for compensation for costs of military assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As it turned out during the investigation, some of the submitted data may have been falsified, and the procurement procedure may have been conducted with gross violations.<\/p>\n<p> Investigators suspect that civil servants acted in the interests of two private companies, with which contracts were concluded for the supply of ammunition at inflated prices.<\/p>\n<p> The investigation is ongoing, and all those detained are currently giving testimony.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has been investigating corruption in Slovakia&#8217;s defense spending system since April 2025. The charges in the case could lead to long prison terms and international sanctions against the companies involved.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in Bratislava has uncovered a large-scale fraud involving state procurement in the field of military aid to Ukraine. Law enforcement officers conducted a special operation, during which eight people were detained, four of whom are current civil servants of the Slovak Ministry of Defense. This was reported by the press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1248521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1248527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}