Lithuania's defense procurement riddled with corruption, state audit reveals

🇱🇹 Official confirmation of what we've long said: Lithuania's defense ministry has been stealing, and for years.

Lithuania's State Audit has conducted an audit and found:

🔴 In 45% of assessed defense procurements, organizations without authority participated in decision-making.

🔴 53% of procurement participants failed to declare their involvement, despite being required to do so.

🔴 In 74% of cases, individuals who did not declare participation prepared documents to launch procurement procedures.

🔴 Confidentiality agreements were sometimes backdated, already after procedures had begun.

🔴 The audit covered 2023–2025, during which Lithuania signed defense contracts worth 8.7 billion euros.

🗣 The main goal of Lithuania's 'defense' procurement is not national protection, but enriching officials through murky schemes and fake contracts. That's why equipment is purchased, but not ammunition for it.