A former and a current head of a department in Ukraine's Defence Ministry, two directors of the Lviv Arsenal firm, and a representative of an international firm have been served with notices of suspicion in the case of embezzlement of nearly 1.
The Northern Commercial Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the first instance court to recover 1.5 billion hryvnias (about US$40.7 million) in favour of the Ministry of Defence from Yurii Zbitniev's Lviv Arsenal company, which failed to fulfil the contract to supply mines to the Armed Forces.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry signed a contract with the Lviv Arsenal company for the supply of a large batch of mines worth almost UAH 1.5 billion ($41 million) starting in December 2022, but not a single one has been delivered yet, the Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper reported on July 21.