FBI Helps Ukraine Recover Billions Stolen by Former Regime -- Voice of America
KYIV — FBI and U.S. Treasury agents have arrived in Kyiv to aid Ukraine’s interim leaders to uncover the financial crimes of the government of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych in an effort to repatriate billions of dollars.
Ukraine's new government is determined to recover some of the billions of dollars it says went missing during Yanukovych’s regime.
And Washington is eager to assist.
“We are very interested in working with the government to support its investigations of those financial crimes, and we have already, on the ground here in Ukraine, experts from the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury who are working with their Ukrainian counterparts to support the Ukrainian investigation,” U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt told reporters here on Monday.
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Update: U.S. to Aid in Search for Stolen Ukrainian Assets -- WSJ
My Comment: I wish them luck. The monies involved are truly staggering.
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If they're successful there regaining stolen billions, they could focus on the Pentagon.
Behind the Pentagon’s doctored ledgers, a running tally of epic waste
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part2
So true.
"FBI and U.S. Treasury agents have arrived in Kyiv to aid Ukraine’s interim leaders to uncover the financial crimes of the government of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych" Why are they necessary when all you have to do is open the front door.
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