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Ukraine Ramps Up Corruption Fight as Zelensky Races to Assure Wary West
Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/2/23 | Jared Malsin, Allen Cullison

Posted on 02/02/2023 5:46:45 AM PST by jdsteel

Ukrainian authorities launched criminal cases against six former defense-ministry officials and raided the home of a former political backer of President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, amid a flurry of attempts by Mr. Zelensky to show Western governments that he is serious about an anticorruption drive.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; ftxdonationstodems; ftxwhslackchannel; kickbacks; letsgobrandon; letsgoukraine; moneylaundering; toolittletoolate; ukraine
There’s plenty in here for the Ukraine lovers & haters both.
1 posted on 02/02/2023 5:46:45 AM PST by jdsteel
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To: jdsteel

Free link to WSJ article. Last paragraph of article:

In the U.S., Republican members of Congress have accused Ukraine of corruption as a part of a critique of the Biden administration’s support for Kyiv during the war. The Treasury Department said on Tuesday that it had found no indications that U.S. funds had been misused in Ukraine. U.S. officials have said they are working with the Ukrainian government in order to prevent and clamp down on any corruption.


2 posted on 02/02/2023 5:47:53 AM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: jdsteel

The problem is that you can’t trust anyone’s reporting on this and so many other things—are they rooting out the corrupt people, or are they rooting out the people who could and might expose the corruption, and collusion with powerful forces in the West?


3 posted on 02/02/2023 5:54:38 AM PST by _longranger81
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To: jdsteel

Sub Heading:

“Ukraine’s Al Capone Shocked To Find Many Corrupt Gangsters In His Organization.”


4 posted on 02/02/2023 5:56:22 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: _longranger81
are they rooting out the corrupt people, or are they rooting out the people who could and might expose the corruption

Well one of the raids was on an oligarch called Kolomoisky, who I doubt is going to "expose the corruption".

5 posted on 02/02/2023 6:08:42 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on bour Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: jdsteel

Ukraine fighting corruption lol


6 posted on 02/02/2023 6:13:08 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: jdsteel

What about the FReepers that want America to concentrate on American issues?
Anything in the article?…


7 posted on 02/02/2023 6:20:36 AM PST by EEGator
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How about the most corrupt person in Ukraine? Zelensky is his name.......


8 posted on 02/02/2023 6:20:49 AM PST by Arlis
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To: tlozo

Kolomoisky made and funded Zelensky.

https://dossier.substack.com/p/zelenskys-great-purge-continues-launching


9 posted on 02/02/2023 6:25:52 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: EEGator

You are a bad person. A very bad person. LOL


10 posted on 02/02/2023 6:27:25 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: jdsteel

The undeclared war was always just a money-laundering operation for The Big Guy.


11 posted on 02/02/2023 6:49:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: jdsteel

I think the crack down is real. They are syphoning off so much money that Ukraine is losing the war. That’s what happens when you give one of the most corrupt countries on earth tens of billions of dollars with no oversight. Everybody knew this was going to happen.


12 posted on 02/02/2023 6:50:21 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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In Ukraine, as in the USA, the corruption is centered in the president.


13 posted on 02/02/2023 6:55:13 AM PST by I want the USA back (Hey, ask me my opinion!)
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To: dforest

I’ll go sit in the corner…


14 posted on 02/02/2023 7:06:31 AM PST by EEGator
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To: jdsteel

they probably stole some of the big guy’s 10%.....
Why would Rupert “globalist” Murdoch bother to present this propaganda?


15 posted on 02/02/2023 9:03:12 AM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: EEGator

“ What about the FReepers that want America to concentrate on American issues?
Anything in the article?…”

Since we’re sending billions over there…yeah. I’d say it’s an American issue.


16 posted on 02/02/2023 2:16:46 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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Gee, don’t send the billions.


17 posted on 02/02/2023 3:05:11 PM PST by EEGator
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