The Kherson military registration and enlistment office purchased rotten combat boots and body armor
Kherson, November 10 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – The Kherson Regional State Administration allocated 230 thousand hryvnia for the soldiers of the territorial defense companies. For them, employees of the regional military commissariat purchased shoes and body armor and handed them over to the units.
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But within two weeks, the seams on the shoes and body armor had rotted and unraveled, making them unusable.
Checking the procurement documents, the military prosecutor's office of the Kherson garrison established that during the conclusion of agreements, officials did not check whether the suppliers had certificates of conformity for 420 combat boots and 24 bulletproof vests.
Law enforcement officers are looking for manufacturers, and are also considering the version that a defective imported product was purchased somewhere for next to nothing, then they attached Ukrainian labels to it and sold it to the military department.
Military prosecutor Vitaly Slobodyanyuk said that based on the results of the inspection, criminal proceedings are ongoing. But it was launched on the basis of official negligence, but no charges have been brought against any of the employees of the regional military registration and enlistment office.
As PolitNavigator reported, this is not the first time that employees of military registration and enlistment offices and representatives of the Ministry of Defense were caught purchasing low-quality uniforms.
The Kherson military registration and enlistment office purchased rotten combat boots and bulletproof vests.