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Ukraine Suspends Defense Official Amid Corruption Probe
Newsmax ^ | February 2, 2024 | Rooters

Posted on 02/03/2024 8:00:13 AM PST by Navy Patriot

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov suspended a senior official while authorities investigate suspected corruption in the procurement of weapons, his ministry said on Friday.

Umerov took office last year on a pledge to clean up graft inside the ministry as Ukraine's Western partners weighed sending more military aid to Kyiv following Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.

Toomas Nakhkur, who led the defense ministry's department for technical policy and weapons development, was suspended after being named an official suspect in an unspecified criminal case, the ministry wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ukraine
Must be really bad for Uke Nazis to get by Rooters Disinformation rewrites!
1 posted on 02/03/2024 8:00:13 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Corruption is a way of life.


2 posted on 02/03/2024 8:04:04 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Navy Patriot

They got him! Probably wasn’t corrupt enough.


3 posted on 02/03/2024 8:05:55 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Navy Patriot
All I can say is - NEXT !

Zelensky will line up the next official to get his share of wealth. They do seem to have their ‘turn’ at acquiring wealth then they're out for the next in line.

4 posted on 02/03/2024 8:06:36 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Navy Patriot

Corrupt Ukraine bastiges collude with corrupt American bastiges to rip off hard working American taxpayers.

Russians can have that place.


5 posted on 02/03/2024 8:17:04 AM PST by dforest
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To: Navy Patriot

The ONLY reason anyone gets suspended in a Ukrainian corruption investigation is if they DON’T take a bribe. Someone like that can’t be trusted to do the correct thing.


6 posted on 02/03/2024 8:34:26 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Navy Patriot
How corrupt do you have to be to be considered corrupt in Ukraine?
Not enough kickbacks to certain other corruptoctats is my guess.

7 posted on 02/03/2024 8:35:47 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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To: Navy Patriot

“...while authorities investigate suspected corruption in the procurement of weapons”

Bottom Story of the Day for Ukraine.


8 posted on 02/03/2024 8:39:44 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: dforest

“Russians can have that place.”

They don’t want it. Rumor is that Europe will be occupying whatever is left there.


9 posted on 02/03/2024 8:40:41 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: caww

Nuland showed up this week to smooth over the Z vs Z controversy in Kiev. In other words, she came to put all our Uke stooges in their proper pecking order as the graft is doled out. She assured them that they’d all get their cuts and told them to pipe down.


10 posted on 02/03/2024 8:57:22 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Navy Patriot

Ukraine does something right, and the ultracrepidarians leap to the attack.


11 posted on 02/03/2024 9:09:34 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: HYPOCRACY

Nonetheless he becomes the designated fall guy this time around, for they need to keep the scam going. 😋


12 posted on 02/03/2024 9:34:10 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Ukraine does something right, and the ultracrepidarians leap to the attack.
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This is an isolated incident, a feel good article to make one feel something is being done….the entire Ukie government and military are corrupt beyond all comprehension, the size of that iceberg not seen.

Have you ever travelled to the EU? The decades old saying “ When shaking hands with a Ukrainian, be sure to check how many fingers he stole” rings truer every day….when I was there, the Gypsies were to be watched on the streets, but the Ukrainians were to be watched in the big money sectors,…real estate, banking, investment groups, etc…


13 posted on 02/03/2024 9:35:31 AM PST by delta7
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Ukraine does something right, and the ultracrepidarians leap to the attack.

Wow "ultracrepidarians"! Nice word. Now let's translate this to reality.

Zelensky and company decided on a scapegoat to throw under the bus to blame for $Billions in missing funds that are actually in accounts associated with the Biden's, the deep state, the Democrats, and their puppets in Ukraine. And Zeepers here have a knee jerk reaction to defend the actual bad guys both here and abroad. They are afraid that the slaughter going in a conflict that is already lost... might end if the truth about the players comes out.

14 posted on 02/03/2024 9:42:35 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan; All
Ukraine does something right...

Yes, Ukraine is the World's finest authority on doing Corruption right.

When the entire Western Mainstream Media can no longer cover, distract, deflect, misdirect, or lie enough, Uke Nazis provide a small time fringe Fall Guy, so Rooters (sewer rooting "journalists") can trumpet "We Got Him" and shift back to their standard Disinformational "journalism".

15 posted on 02/03/2024 10:54:37 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: hardspunned
Nuland will ALWAYS show her loyalty to Ukraine. Were it not for her we'd never been involved ‘at all’ with Ukraine. She has close family involvement with Ukraine and has wanted Ukraine to be unified with Europe for decades. Plus she know all to well where to put the leverage to keep funds going there. She's known for her wickedly ‘strong-arm’ and plays dirty. She went ahead of Zelensky’s tour for support and used that to get Europe to go along...they were not happy.
16 posted on 02/03/2024 1:52:54 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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