Posted on 02/02/2023 5:37:23 AM PST by JonPreston
Ukraine has launched a major crackdown on corruption ahead of a summit with the European Union (EU) in Kyiv this week.
Under the anti-corruption drive, Ukraine is investigating current and former top officials in the defence and energy ministries as well as the tax office, reported The Washington Post.
On Wednesday (1 February), the Ukrainian authorities also raided the house of an influential billionaire, Ihor Kolomoisky. Former interior minister Arsen Avakov’s home was also searched.
The raids come as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced his government was “preparing new reforms” that will make the country “more human, transparent and effective”, reported BBC.
Let’s take a closer look at the recent anti-graft raids and Ukraine’s long fight against corruption.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption purge
Ukrainian authorities recovered a large amount of cash, luxury watches and cars during the raid carried out tax chief’s residence, reported CNN.
Several purported photographs of Kolomoiskiy, one of the country’s richest men, looking on as his home in the south-eastern city of Dnipro was searched were published. Reuters reported citing media outlets that the probe was into possible financial crimes.
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“”NOW Zelenskyy has decided to root our the corruption to the 3rd most corrupt country on the planet?””
You have been corrected on your made-up ratings before, why would you plain out lie repeatedly?
Zelenskyy would be wise to learn about Ngo Dinh Diem, 1963.
That’s my comment, NATO warrior :)
When are you joining Zelenskyy’s war effort?
Of COURSE Ukraine is corrupt. Through all those decades of Soviet occupation, the Russians taught them everything they knew.
You are deliberately lying about information to freepers.
Why would you do that?
And Kolomoisky is a natural born Ukrainian. Zelensky is a Russian born person.
Kolomoisky put Zelensky where he is.
All the more reason you support Biden pumping $hundreds of billions$ into the lap of Zelenskyy, right?
Incestuousness thievery.
Kolomoisky fell out of favor of Biden regime. Obviously little Z was told to make Big K hurt to save Hunter and Joes filthy hind ends.
This is all happening at the same time the heat is on Hunter in the US.
Pass the popcorn.
Your childish trolling is against FR rules, and your making up informational lies for freerepublic is another form of trolling against FR as you contribute to the gullible being made fools of as they are corrected on other platforms and in conversations.
You have already been shown the actual ratings establishing Russia as far more corrupt than Ukraine, yet you make up the 3rd in world lie which doesn’t fit in anywhere is pure lying on your part.
Just wait...
Putin has increased his army by 50% in the last few weeks. This is twice the amount of mobilization from last September. They are all inducted, trained, and equipped and are waiting in their modern T14 Tanks on the Belarus border.
I hear they have one magazine apiece. But they are superior sharpshooters who understand suffering...because of Stalingrad some 80 years ago.
//All Sarcasm
The US is one of the most corrupt countries in North America.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yeah but Castro’s son is working hard to take that title for Canada!
With the lower number being less corrupt and the higher number being more corrupt.
There is Ukraine at 116, with Russia at 137.
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022
Most of the former Soviet bloc is corrupt to its core.
Why is anyone surprised?
While you mock FR veterans, instead of using actual rankings you are using something you say was published more than a decade ago about 43 countries?
You are so much a troll and you willfully post false information.
With the lower number being less corrupt and the higher number being more corrupt.
There is Ukraine at 116, with Russia at 137.
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022
Sensitive soul, aren’t you? You proudly call yourself a NATO warrior in your tagline, and I repeat it. Change it if you are embarrassed. And talk about embarrassing. You are absolutely the only person to argue against the Ukraine being an open Cesspool of Corruption. With ppl like you as Cheerleaders for the MIC, it’s no wonder America is in deep trouble.
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