Latvia's opposition MP seeks probe into purchase of British armoured vehicles

  • 2016-08-15
  • BNS/TBT Staff/Riga
Andrejs Elksnins, an MP of Latvia's opposition leftist Harmony party, has sent Prosecutor General Eriks Kalnmeiers and Auditor General Elita Krumina a letter requesting an investigation into a 250-million-euro purchase of British armoured vehicles for the Latvian armed forces, BNS has learned. "It is an obvious criminal negligence and mismanagement of funds to purchase military equipment that has been written off in Great Britain instead of buying new equipment, like it is the case in Estonia and Lithuania, for instance. It is an essentially wrong decision, becau...
 
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