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Scandal with the company linked to Ardi Veliu and Pirro Vengu's KAYO, Belgium launches investigations
2025-12-10 12:40:59 / AKTUALITET
Belgian authorities have launched an investigation into suspected contracts won by the Israeli company Elbit Systems, which has signed several agreements with the Albanian company KAYO, run by Ardi Veliu, for the production of weapons.
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office has issued an international arrest warrant for a consultant suspected of acting on behalf of the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems, in the context of several important contracts awarded by a NATO agency, reports alettre.fr.
At the center of the investigation is Eliau Eluasvili, 60 years old, an Italian citizen, who is suspected of "active corruption" and "participation in a criminal organization."
He has been wanted since September 30, while according to investigation sources, Elbit Systems was suspended in July from all NATO public procurement.
Investigators believe that over several years, Eluasvili helped Elbit Systems secure rigged contracts from the NATO Procurement Agency (NSPA). He is involved in a network of consulting companies registered in Lithuania, the US, the UK, Greece and Romania.
According to internal documents, NATO suspended 15 contracts over the summer, 13 of which belonged to Elbit Systems and its subsidiary Orion Advanced Systems. These contracts included supplies of air-launched missiles, ammunition, aircraft flares and 155mm shells to NATO armed forces.
Among the largest suspended contracts is the one for the modernization of the Portuguese Navy's fleet of patrol vessels, worth 100 million euros for the period 2016–2024.
Contract 'irregularities'
In a document dated July 31 accompanying the list of suspended contracts, the French head of the NSPA ammunition program, Céline Danielli, warned Alliance representatives about the scale of the fraud.
“The vendor suspensions come after serious allegations emerged indicating that suppliers are likely to have engaged in sanctionable practices, including irregularities in the award of contracts,” she wrote. “As a result, our existing Procurement strategy cannot now be executed,” Céline Danielli added. NSPA remains available to discuss the operational impact of this decision, which may be limited.
The suspicions are reinforced by the fact that all of the NATO agents or former agents arrested in recent months were active in the NSPA ammunition program. Starting with Guy Moeraert, a former Belgian soldier who was active in the years 2015-2020 in the operations department, where he was assigned to the ammunition procurement program. He later became a consultant. He is currently subject to electronic tagging after a six-month stay in prison.
Moeraert is suspected by Belgian courts of having received 1.9 million euros in bribes for ammunition and aeronautical equipment programs worth several hundred million euros. He has been charged with “active and passive corruption, money laundering and participation in a criminal organization.” His lawyer said his client “has put everything on the table, has given names (and) does not dispute the factual elements,” but “still benefits from the presumption of innocence.”
Belgian courts want to find out whether the former NSPA agent, who became an independent consultant in 2021, worked for Eluasvili and helped him secure several NATO contracts for Elbit Systems, according to our sources.
A network of former agents turned consultants, who happily open their address books to industrialists, gravitates around the NSPA headquarters in Luxembourg. They have taken advantage of the new geopolitical situation, the explosion in European defense budgets and their inside knowledge of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to help certain companies win contracts after complex tenders launched by the NSPA.
Sometimes they even gave advice on the finer details of contracts. The NSPA, whose code of ethics is silent about its agents moving into the private sector, has shown little concern for the career development of its former employees.
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