Corruption accusations continue to plague top Zelenskiy aides

REUTERS ^ | Sep 19, 2023 | Stephen Grey and Dan Peleschuk

[McGruff]

In his years as the chief executive of one of Ukraine's biggest construction firms, Oleh Maiboroda kept rolls of dollar bills in a safe behind his desk.

The money, Maiboroda told Reuters, was intended to bribe public officials to approve building projects. The task of handing over the cash, he said, was entrusted to a lawyer named Oleh Tatarov, now a senior adviser to Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

"Tatarov used to solve all issues with law enforcement," Maiboroda said in an interview in Vienna, where he has settled to escape prosecution in Ukraine for his own alleged role in corruption schemes involving the construction firm, Ukrbud Development LLC.

Maiboroda said bribes flowed through Tatarov from 2014 to 2019. The lawyer's contacts with police, courts and prosecutors made him a perfect go-between.

[Ann Archy]

WHAT ABOUT SARAH ASHTON, KING Z??

[boomop1]

They give 10% to the big guy.

[NWFree]

He just fired all of his defense ministers for corruption. How many do they need?

And now congress wants to flush billions more down the toilet

[rlmorel]

LOL, it is “only the aides who are corrupt”, not Zelenskiy.

I need to get that gif of the woman saying “yeah, right...” to post when I need it.

[353FMG]

Biden and Zelenskiy families are Siamese twins. Corruption keeps them together.

[McGruff]

[rlmorel]

LOL, that’s it!

[vpintheak]

That’s all these bastards know, is gangster grift.

[mass55th]

Corruption?? In Ukraine's government??

So what else is new?

[rxh4n1]

“LOL, it is “only the aides who are corrupt”, not Zelenskiy.

I need to get that gif of the woman saying “yeah, right...” to post when I need it.”

We’ve heard this before. “If only the Czar knew.”; “If only Stalin knew.”; “If only the Fuhrer knew.”

[rlmorel]

I swear, they know all this, but are simply pushing our noses in their corruption, and grinning as they do it.