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NATO corruption: Europeans show red card to procurement agency's American boss

Par Matthieu Fauroux

Publié le 05.02.2026 à 6h20 Lecture 4 min

Mark Rutte, Stacy Cummings and Bob Reddington. © Photomontage Indigo Publications - Genya Savilov/AFP//Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu/AFP//Bob Reddington//Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP

France, Norway and Belgium have formally challenged the leadership of NATO's Support and Procurement Agency, marking an unprecedented rebuke of its American General Manager amid mounting corruption allegations and investigations.

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NATO corruption: Europeans show red card to procurement agency's American boss

France, Norway and Belgium have formally challenged the leadership of NATO's Support and Procurement Agency, marking an unprecedented rebuke of its American General Manager amid mounting corruption allegations and investigations.

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NATO corruption: Europeans show red card to procurement agency's American boss

France, Norway and Belgium have formally challenged the leadership of NATO's Support and Procurement Agency, marking an unprecedented rebuke of its American General Manager amid mounting corruption allegations and investigations.

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Stacy Cummings fights for survival at NATO agency as European anger mounts

Corruption at NATO: prosecutors probe suspect contracts won by Israeli giant Elbit

Corruption at NATO: NSPA chief uses attack as defence tactic

Washington shields NATO procurement chief as corruption scandals mount

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OTAN : la directrice générale de la NSPA visée par une enquête

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