Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has brushed aside corruption suspicions about Ukrainian arms manufacturer Fire Point, the first company to start production under Denmark’s €1.4 billion scheme to support Ukraine's defence industry.

“Based on what I have been informed, we have no reason to believe there is a problem,” the minister told the press last week, as he refused to stop working with Fire Point over the corruption investigation.

The Kyiv Independent reported at the end of August that Ukrainian weapons manufacturer Fire Point is being investigated for corruption by Kyiv's anti-corruption agency, NABU.

The allegations suggest the company has been inflating its delivery numbers to Ukraine's military to secure large shares of its budget – almost a third of the d

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