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Tank scam firm still holds exclusive ministry contract.
(From The Slovak Spectator)
Byline: Lucia Nicholsonova Special to the Spectator
Police forced to shelve Robus tank diversion case as misdemeanour THE MINISTRY of Defense continues to do business, even under its new leadership, with a firm at the centre of a scandal earlier this year involving the diversion of functioning T-72 tanks that were supposed to have been destroyed to clandestine private customers.
Not only has the Robus firm not faced reprisals after 16 tanks were found in a potato warehouse near Martin in northern Slovakia in February, it even still enjoys an exclusive contract with the Defense Ministry for liquidating surplus military stocks.
Nor has anyone yet faced legal consequences for the transaction, in which the ministry sold Robus 79 tanks with a market value of about Sk500 million for Sk20 million at the end of last year.
According to a police source, Robus planned to sell the tanks to a Czech arms dealer and thence to the government of Kirghizstan.
However, investigators are treating the case as a misdemanour.
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