Multiple countries have launched corruption investigations into the US-led alliance’s procurement system Lithuanian soldiers raise the NATO flag iin front of the Presidential Palace in Vilnius, on March 29, 2024. © Yerchak Yauhen / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images Police have conducted arrests and searches in several countries as part of a corruption investigation involving current and former employees of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA). Luxembourg Times on Wednesday that NSPA’s main headquarters in the Grand Duchy had initiated the probe. spokeswoman Allison Hart said. she added. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters in Ankara on Thursday that the military bloc was working with the authorities. Rutte said. Read more The public prosecutor’s office in Luxembourg said that documents were seized pertaining to suspicions that NSPA staffers had Two people were arrested in Belgium, and three in the Netherlands, officials said. Belgian prosecutors stated that the investigation centers around The probe also looks at possible sharing of confidential information by NSPA employees with defense companies and money laundering. The Dutch authorities said they arrested a former official with the Dutch Defense Ministry at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on Monday. The former civil servant is suspected of taking bribes in 2023 regarding the awarding of defense contracts. the EU.
