INVESTIGATION: Major NATO Corruption Case Derailed by US Political Intervention

21st Century Wire

The procurement agency of NATO has been facing scrutiny regarding its arms and munitions deals. In May 2025, revelations regarding an ongoing corruption investigation involving current and former staff at the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) surfaced, with five detentions reported, including two in Belgium and three in the Netherlands. At the heart of the purported corruption lies a plan to award NATO contracts for military supplies and services in return for bribes. 

This NATO corruption scandal captured global attention when multiple suspects were apprehended throughout Europe in May, including a US national. Months later, the U.S. dismissed charges against four of these individuals – one of whom is a prominent Turkish defense tycoon close to Erdogan.

In  May 2025, the Belgian public prosecutor announced that multiple arrests had been conducted, indicating they were related to “possible irregularities” in contracts for purchasing ammunition and drones through NATO. Shortly after, Dutch authorities revealed they had made three arrests, including a 58-year-old former Defense Ministry official whose prior role involved international procurement contracts. In Luxembourg, the public prosecutor’s office confirmed that documents had been confiscated in the Grand Duchy and noted that the investigation had also extended to Italy, Spain, and the US, with coordination from the EU justice agency Eurojust. 

On the morning of May 13, Scott Willason, an American who had resigned from his position as the head of the Ammunition and Support Branch at the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to pursue a career in the private sector, was taken into custody in Lugano, Switzerland. Willason found himself entangled in a broad police operation that extended across multiple European nations, aimed at five current and former NATO officials, who are now consultants, attempting to sway bids for Alliance arms contracts in return for substantial commissions. Willason’s apprehension came after a collaborative investigation conducted by the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alongside the Pentagon’s Defense Criminal Investigative Service. In the United States, these two agencies uncovered several questionable transactions associated with a significant contract for supplying TNT to the US Army.

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Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows

Jack Poulson and Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone

The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighborhood. Known as 'Site 81,' the U.S.-built facility houses a hyper-secretive intelligence base.

When Iran struck a series of targets in the heart of north Tel Aviv with ballistic missiles on June 13, Israeli authorities immediately cordoned off the area to prevent journalists from filming the damage. "The building on this compound was just hit," Trey Yingst of Fox News reported as he arrived that evening at the site of HaKirya, Israel's Defense Ministry headquarters, and the nearby Azrieli Center. But within seconds, Israeli police officers arrived to aggressively shunt Yingst away from where he was standing, just north of the HaKirya Bridge on the west side of Menachem Begin Road.

That day, Iranian missiles struck the north tower of the Da Vinci apartment complex roughly 550 meters southwest of Yingst's location. The Grayzone has determined that the building sits immediately south of the "Canarit" / "Kannarit" Israeli Air Force towers and above an underground military intelligence bunker jointly administered by the US and Israeli militaries. According to an analysis of leaked emails, public documents, and Israeli news reports, the location is host to a highly secretive, electromagnetically shielded intelligence facility known as "Site 81."

Israel aggressively censors information relating to its urban military and intelligence facilities while simultaneously accusing its adversaries of engaging in 'human shielding' - a practice of protecting military targets with civilian populations that is prohibited by international humanitarian law. While the existence of a U.S. Army project to expand Site 81 to a 6,000 square-meter facility was widely reported from government records circa 2013, the specific location remained unknown. 

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U.S. Army to Track Employees' Web Activity to Thwart Future Snowdens

 

Mashable

Colin Daileda

The U.S. Army plans to monitor the online behavior of its employees with tracking software that will be woven into Army Network 2020, an in-house computer network set to launch in seven years.

The network, which aims to catch anyone who might download and distribute classified documents, comes after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked information revealing that the agency collects data on everyone from average American citizens to world leaders.

The order for a tracking system dates back to last November, when U.S. President Barack Obama issued a memo that describes programs meant to "deter, detect and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security."

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The network will use "behavior-based analytics" to monitor the activity of soldiers, according to National Defense Magazine, citing Maj. Gen. Alan Lynn. In particular, the army plans to target employees who have just started or are about to leave their job, as they are seen as most likely to leak information. The system will be able to detect a range of behaviors, including how many emails someone sends per day, and the amount of information that person downloads.

"Outside of simply saying that the Army intelligence community is complying with executive orders and directives that call for network auditing, the details of those efforts are not releasable," Matthew Bourke, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army, told Mashable in an email.

Although Bourke declined to answer questions about the extent of the monitoring, his statement confirmed that Army Network 2020 will include an employee-monitoring component.