Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office investigates army incapacitation - Lutsenko
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has started a number of inquiries on counts of incapacitation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and army property embezzlement, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said.
"I'd like to tell you that the Prosecutor General's Office [...] has begun a number of criminal inquiries on counts of embezzlement of military property of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and their incapacitation," he said at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada National Security and Defense Committee in Kyiv on Friday.
The leadership of the Ukrainian Armed Forces sold the army assets worth almost UAH 2 billion over the period between 2005 and 2014, Lutsenko said. The most large-scale sales of the army property took place before 2005, Lutsenko said, adding that "however, the most documents about it were lost or destroyed". "Nonetheless, military prosecutors currently restore these files during cross-inspections at different business firms that facilitated the transactions," he said.
"Over the period from 2005-2014, we have full details which I will disclose now. The army property sold over the past 10 years was worth more than UAH 1,837,299,000," Lutsenko said.
In total, over the aforesaid period, they sold out 832 tanks, 232 helicopters, 202 airplanes, 714 infantry fighting vehicles and armored troop carriers, alongside with 4,930 cars, 28,555 pieces of tube, rocket and missile artillery ordnance, 1,824,000 pieces of small arms, and a selection of ammunitions worth UAH 560 million, Lutsenko said.