Mossad officer describes covert global battle to obtain ventilators at all costs

> "We are utilizing our special connections to win the race and perhaps do what the whole world is doing — lay our hands on stocks ordered by others," he said."

It sounds to me like outbidding, perhaps offering enough money that a supplier is willing to breach contracts. Not pretty, but not strictly theft.

Either they are stealing someone else's property or I've misunderstood something.

I wonder if a country has already complained to the WTO about their shipments being stolen.