It is worth mentioning that Purple Shovel tends to bid on these SOCOM contracts and appeared to rocket to great success from almost nowhere in 2014. Along that route have been a number of controversial findings such as delivering faulty grenades to SOCOM, the death of an employee in Bulgaria, and working with a U.S. Kalashnikov pattern rifle manufacturer that has a reputation of very low-quality production rifles.

The Ukranian defense firm that sold the technical data package to Purple Shovel is Ukrinmash,

<https://www.overtdefense.com/2018/04/09/purple-shovel-looking-pkt-manufacture-socom-contract/

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According to U.S. sources, UDC USA is part of Ukrainian Defense Consulting Ltd., a company registered in the Seychelles and in Kiev and owned by some Taras Rud. On Zoominfo, Rud says that he worked in the Ukrainian parliament for 10 years and has contacts in some Ukrainian ministries. Ukrainian Defense Consulting Ltd. has no own website, but the list of its services can be found on the portal of UDC USA.

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2017/10/25/does-not-stink-how-former-socialist-and-cis-countries-make-money-on-syria

<https://eadaily.com/en/news/2017/10/25/does-not-stink-how-former-socialist-and-cis-countries-make-money-on-syria

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