70 military vehicles and 50 power generators have disappeared without a trace from a warehouse in Skåne. The vehicles include tracked vehicles, all-terrain vehicles and command vehicles.
The Swedish Armed Forces have suspected for some time that military material has disappeared from a warehouse in Köpingebro, outside Ystad in Skåne. The warehouse was owned by the voluntary organization Försvarsutbildarna Ystad, now known as Beredskapscenter Fredriksberg, through an agreement with the Armed Forces.
According to the Swedish Armed Forces, 70 military vehicles, 50 power generators and patrol boats are missing, including tracked vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, command vehicles and ordinary transport vehicles such as scooters and wheel loaders.
– We are working very hard to build total defense now, strengthen society so that we can cope, we see what is happening on the other side of the sea, says Jan Bohman, head of communications for the Southern Military Region to local newspaper Sydsvenskan and continues:
– When you see this, then I see red – what the hell is this?
70 vehicles “a fantasy”
Responsibility for the missing vehicles has been placed on the organization that managed the warehouse. The organization has previously come under fire for illegally sending material from this warehouse to Ukraine, which was revealed by local newspaper Ystads Allehanda. The agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces states that the organization “does not have the right to transfer/lease/sell/loan the supplies to third parties”.
However, the organization questions the Army’s calculations, arguing that there should not have been so many vehicles in the warehouse.
– There couldn’t have been 70 vehicles there. It is a fantasy, board member Björn Hårdstedt told the newspaper.
Bohman, however, believes that the organization may have sold vehicles to private individuals.
– They may have gone to private individuals as a means of payment. There are scrap yards that could have scrapped them. We know that some of them were passed on somewhere. A tracked vehicle is worth about half a million [Swedish crowns], he says.
