Word: ukrspetsexport
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ukrainian government has repeatedly said that the arms are bound for Kenya. Mykola Malomuzh, the chief of Ukraine's state weapons-exporting agency, Ukrspetsexport, said Kenya had assured the government that it and not South Sudan was the owner of the tanks. "The cargo onboard the ship was transported under a contract between Ukrspetsexport and the Defense Ministry of Kenya," Malomuzh said Thursday...
...Jordanian middleman. The purported sale - a deal that Ukrainian officials deny ever took place - has led to a serious diplomatic dispute between Ukraine and the U.S. The fbi says the July 2000 tape of Kuchma in conversation with Valeriy Malev, then head of Ukraine's state arms-sales firm, Ukrspetsexport, is authentic - a finding that led to the suspension last September of $55 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine. Denying the alleged sale, Viktor Medvedchuk, Kuchma's Chief of Staff, told a press briefing last month: "This is absolutely ruled out. The President of Ukraine could not approve such supplies...
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