Uganda’s military was paying salary to a Russian ghost Mi-17 pilot

Between October 2005 and January 2016, the Ugandan Ministry of Defense paid approximately $545,000 to a Russian instructor pilot.

Uganda People's Defence Force Air Wing Mil Mi-17 MTI-1
Melting Tarmac Images [GFDL or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons


It later turned out that such a person did not exist and the money went to three people, one of them an Air Force major.

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