The National Anti-Corruption Bureau has confirmed the existence of a corruption scheme in the procurement of food by the Ministry of Defence.
The scheme allows for significantly inflated prices for certain categories of food, the bureau said in a statement. Deceitful suppliers receive excessive profits and actually profit from the army.
"The use of the existing procurement system allows suppliers to resort to abuses when pricing popular product groups: eggs are sold at a premium, and salmon or blueberries, which are not in the military's diet, are sold at prices several times lower than market prices," the Bureau said.
The current procurement scheme allows suppliers to abuse the pricing of the most popular eggs, selling them at a premium, and salmon or blueberries, which are not in the military's diet, at prices that are several times lower than market prices. To confirm the facts of abuse, detectives seize and process a huge array of primary documents of warehouse accounting of military units and service recipients, which is necessary to establish the volume of supply of all items in the catalogue.
