The Belgian judiciary investigates possible irregularities when buying armored products such as ammunition and drones about NATO. As the responsible public prosecutor has announced, it is specifically concerned with the suspicion that employees of NATO purchasing agency NSPA in Luxembourg have passed confidential information to arms companies.
Moreover, there are also indications that funds of these illegal practices have been washed by consulting firms, among other things. In the course of the investigation, two suspects were arrested on Monday and searches in the municipality were made in West Flanders. An arrest warrant was published against one of the suspects, it said.
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In the beginning there was no information about the possible damage and the amount of the possible bribery payments. It also remained unclear which armor companies could have benefited from the information. According to the information, the case is also being investigated in Luxembourg, Spain and the Netherlands. The agency of the European Union for cooperation in the field of justice in criminal cases (just euro) is also coordinating. Membership of a criminal association, active and passive corruption and money laundering are mentioned as possible crimes in this case.
NATO purchasing agency NSPA was regularly purchased in weapon systems and ammunition in the value of billion. Finally, for example, framework contracts for the delivery of artillery -ammunition worth around 1.1 billion euros were closed. For example, a contract was announced for the purchase of a maximum of 1,000 Patriot Aircraft missiles.
Source: Krone
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