Ammunition Theft Case April 5020

The Ammunition Theft Case - April 5020 is the collective name of a series of 12 Court Martials held in the early months of 5020 following a year long investigation lead by Commander Reagan E. Greer as to the whereabouts  of 5.000 Loki torpedoes and 6,000 TL Kilo loads that were discovered missing from Arsenal IV's inventory while the USS Devastator was receiving one of her periodic resupplies.

Cause
The missing ammunition was pointed out to Acting Captain Eric Olafson by Lt. Bernhard. After convincing Commander Sil Narbuk to locate replacements for the missing ammunition, Captain Olafson ordered Lt. Bernhard to attempt to determine if the missing ammunition simply due to misfiled paperwork, or something else was the problem. A quick check on the paperwork requesting the ammunition showed it to be correct, at which time Captain Olafson informed NAVINT in the person of Commander Greer of the situation.

The investigation showed multiple reasons behind the missing ammunition, from misorders, to shipments from the factories that claimed one amount but actually shipped another, sending some Loki Torpedoes to Arsenal II for storage but not doing the proper paperwork to keep track of them, miscounts while loading other ships, and outright theft. It was determined in the trials that over half the cases where there was a failure to follow the standard operating procedure, that it was done with the intention to try to hide the theft.

Results
Those found guilty of theft, conspiracy to commit theft and sale of restricted mil tech were sentenced to death. In these trials, accomplices in other locations both civilian and military were discovered and placed on trial themselves.

It became one of the catalysts for the Core Audit 5020, and also created a campain to encourage "wistlebloing."