Some US arms shipments to Ukraine ending up in hands of criminal gangs, arms traffickers, watchdog says
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Ams and aid shipments to Ukraine have come with little oversight, according to a Defense Department report, with some weapons falling into the hands of criminal gangs.
The 19-page report, which was issued last October and only became public after a Heritage Foundation Freedom of Information Act request, details specific instances in which U.S. shipments were intercepted by criminal actors in Ukraine. In one example, Ukraine's security services, Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy (SBU), disrupted a plot by gangs to pose "as members of a humanitarian aid organization who distributed bulletproof vests." Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee
"The group illicitly imported the vests and sold them, rather than distributed them to Ukrainian forces. A member of the group was found with a cache of vests worth $17,000," the report reads.