Today, August 10, the former head of Security Service of Ukraine, Igor Smeshko, has been called to Chief investigation department of General Office of Public Prosecutor for interrogation.
As reported by UNIAN, Smeshko has been called in connection with the criminal case concerning weapon smuggling, which officials of Chief intelligence department of Defense Ministry of Ukraine were involved in.
In June, Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun said Smeshko and two other former officials with the Defense Ministry's intelligence branch were allegedly involved in illegal weapons sales abroad, News from Russia informs.
After the 1991 Soviet collapse, Ukraine inherited some 2 million tons of ammunition, a huge quantity of weapons and a sizable military industry.
Under former President Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine gained notoriety for its murky multi-million-dollar weapons deals that spanned from small-arms sales to African and Balkan countries to exports of nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran and China.
Security officials recently revealed that in May, military officials and businessmen involved in weapons decommissioning deliberately set a western Ukrainian ammunition depot on fire to cover up an illegal trade deal. Nine people were injured, one seriously, while fighting that fire, the AP reports.
As reported by UNIAN, Smeshko has been called in connection with the criminal case concerning weapon smuggling, which officials of Chief intelligence department of Defense Ministry of Ukraine were involved in.
In June, Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun said Smeshko and two other former officials with the Defense Ministry's intelligence branch were allegedly involved in illegal weapons sales abroad, News from Russia informs.
After the 1991 Soviet collapse, Ukraine inherited some 2 million tons of ammunition, a huge quantity of weapons and a sizable military industry.
Under former President Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine gained notoriety for its murky multi-million-dollar weapons deals that spanned from small-arms sales to African and Balkan countries to exports of nuclear-capable cruise missiles to Iran and China.
Security officials recently revealed that in May, military officials and businessmen involved in weapons decommissioning deliberately set a western Ukrainian ammunition depot on fire to cover up an illegal trade deal. Nine people were injured, one seriously, while fighting that fire, the AP reports.
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