The Ukrainian authorities have uncovered a corruption scheme concerning the purchase of 100,000 mortar shells worth the equivalent of some 1.5 billion hryvnia ($40 million), the country’s SBU intelligence service reported late on Saturday. Former and current officials in the Defence Ministry as well as employees of a foreign arms company were behind the fraud. Five suspects are being investigated, and a sixth was arrested as he attempted to flee the country. The money was transferred to an arms supplier in Lviv in the west of the country in August 2022, which in turn passed it on to a foreign …