Missing $1M DND equipment order not missing all along, contractor says

The military contractor who allegedly disappeared with $1 million of Canadian government money and failed to build an acoustic monitoring system for the navy has a question for the Department of National Defence: When are you going to pick up your equipment?

Department officials say they have been trying since 2009 to get the equipment from Applied Radar and Sonar Technologies GmbH, a German firm.

But the company is no longer registered in Germany and “cannot be contacted,” according to a December 2012 briefing note prepared for senior department staff.

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