Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the opening ceremony of the Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik, Iceland via videolink on Tuesday. Photo: dpa
Newsweek: Ukraine Corruption Scandal Could Boost Zelensky's F-16 Dream
A corruption scandal in Ukraine revealed this week may have fueled concerns about supplying the country with military aid, but the authorities' reaction to it may yet help secure greater Western assistance, a number of experts have told Newsweek.
Earlier this week, the head of Ukraine's Supreme Court was detained as part of a bribery investigation by anti-corruption authorities.An "undue benefit" of $2.7 million "intended for the Head of the Supreme Court and a lawyer may be part of a broader scheme of corrupt pressure on the courts," the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office said in a statement on Tuesday.
The agencies did not mention any names, but Chief Justice Vsevolod Kniaziev was dismissed from his post this week, multiple outlets reported.
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WNU Editor: Over the years of this blog, even before the 2014 Maidan revolution, I did numerous posts explaining how endemic the problem of corruption is in Ukraine. And now the war has made it worse .... much worse.
But in the West the altitude is different. They see a few firings, a few arrests, and claim this is progress that will justify even more aid.
Sighhh .... and it is working .... The Case for Increasing Aid to Ukraine (The Atlantic).
3 comments:
On lesson 7 of my Russian language program. Should probably start learning the basics of mandarin too. I’d rather be a slave in the dining room than an under fed field worker. Point Is all this spending and debt is going to catch up to us. So start planning for the inevitable.
Name a country without a corruption scandal and several more undetected or unprosecuted?
The Russian collusion scandal had a deleterious effect in the Us for 3 years. Maybe 5. It reverberations will last at least a decade.
Durham Report showed what went wrong and nobody is going to jail.
The lawyer, Clinesmith or Ly'in smith, who fudged the FISA document to the judge. In 2 or 3 years, when the spotlights shifts, he will get a series of big promotions. He took one for the team.
lol nice. 🤡
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