Accounting errors to blame for German elite troops' 'missing' ammunition - report

FILE PHOTO: Eberhard Zorn, Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, attends a news conference on coronavirus containment measures supported by Bundeswehr in Berlin, Germany March 19, 2020. Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Book-keeping errors rather than theft are likely to account for more than 60 kilograms of explosives and almost 50,000 rounds of ammunition thought to have disappeared from German special forces' stores in the summer, according to an official report seen by Reuters.

An inventory found that most of the differences between the books and the actual stocks of the elite troops could be explained by accounting errors, a report sent to parliament by armed forces head General Eberhard Zorn on Monday showed.