Posted on 12/17/2017 12:09:40 AM PST by NorseViking
KIEV, Ukraine - (AP) -- An anti-corruption agency established in Ukraine two years ago was expected to be the driving force that would uproot the endemic graft that depleted the nation's resources and worried its Western allies.
But the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine instead has come under fire from allies of President Petro Poroshenko who are trying to curtail its operations and authority.
NABU chief Artem Sytnik told The Associated Press in a weekend interview that fear is behind the recent attempts by political and business elites to weaken the agency that was supposed to be a visible symbol of reform in Ukraine.
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Last month, the Security Service of Ukraine and the prosecutor general's office derailed a sting operation by undercover NABU agents to catch a State Migration Service official suspected of issuing passports and residence permits for bribes. The agencies accused NABU of illegal eavesdropping and released the names of its agents, blowing their covers.
Poroshenko's faction and its allies in parliament also have submitted a bill that would allow lawmakers to fire the anti-corruption agency's director with a simple majority vote. Under current law, NABU's chief can only be fired for a criminal conviction, a provision that was intended to ensure independence.
"Those attacks are directly linked to the fact that we investigate an increasing number of criminal cases involving people who are in control of the media, material or administrative resources, which they turn against us," Sytnik said.
Since its creation in 2015, NABU has investigated 461 cases involving business executives, government officials and judges accused of involvement in corrupt schemes.
Sytnik thinks the current campaign against his agency results from a probe that targeted the son of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov for alleged involvement in a scheme to embezzle 14 million hryvnias (about $520,000) allocated for purchasing police rucksacks.
Avakov has insisted his son was innocent and alleged that NABU of falling under political influence.
Ukraine needs a sovereign government before it can try reform. The reason they don’t have one was the need for private armies when invading rebel-held areas in the east. The national Ukrainian army was mostly staffed by people from the Russian speaking zones and the army largely disappear after the coup that brought Maiden into power. Private armies associated with various oligarchs and neo-nazi groups proved to be the only effective weapon the government had in its goal of conquering the eastern half of the country.
The problem with private armies is once they realize they’re stronger than the national army, the state ceases to be sovereign so the country is ruled by a dozen or so oligarchs and their troops and followers. Trying to reform anything under such conditions is a bad joke.
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Ukraine minister Avakov throws glass at Saakashvili [full rant + English subs]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OXdQO5__sLM
Questionable. There is a historic moment of Uke swamp cutting string with NWO filmed.
That video confirmed what I listed above. In a sovereign state that minister would have had the foreigner tossed out or arrested for his disruption of the hearing. Instead, all he could do was las out verbally and make himself look weak.
Well, following this incident the foreigner in question (Soros’s plant lobbyed by Joe Biden) was fired, stripped of citizenship and deported.
>Well, following this incident the foreigner in question (Soros’s plant lobbyed by Joe Biden) was fired, stripped of citizenship and deported.
Doesn’t look very deported to me.
Based on the news stories I’ve been reading it looks very much like he’s launching a new Maiden (funded by Soros again) to put himself in charge of the official Ukraine government. That government, as I noted doesn’t actually control the country, they just like to pretend they do. Which is why Saakashvili is thumbing his nose at them.
The real question here is the state department backing Saakashvili? Soros gets his money from the US state department and if they’re behind Saakashvili, we might be talking about president Saakashvili shortly.
Saakashvili and supporters scuffle with line of guards at border checkpoint
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f0C3rs9xylE
He went back. I honestly don’t know where Tillerson stands on the issue. His policies are confusing not to say schizophrenic.
>He went back. I honestly don’t know where Tillerson stands on the issue. His policies are confusing not to say schizophrenic.
Tillerson’s doesn’t control the state department, the perminate employees of the state department do. They can’t be fired and it’s so easy to throw up bureaucratic BS to avoid showing your boss what’s someone is really up to.
Trump knows this which is why he’s trying to get people to quit and he’s not replacing them when they do quit. I don’t think Tillerson fully understands how things work thus his actions show a man who says one thing, while his “subordinates” do another.
‘’ ‘’ ‘’ I don’t think Tillerson fully understands how things work thus his actions show a man who says one thing, while his “subordinates” do another.’’ ‘’ ‘’
My impression too. Could be also defined as a poor leadership.
.....”the country is ruled by a dozen or so oligarchs and their troops and followers. Trying to reform anything under such conditions is a bad joke”......
That is not going to change. Kiev is unwilling to fight the country’s endemic corruption. The so called ‘independent corruption investigation by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office”....is itself full of rampant fraud...Corruption remains and will remain Ukraine’s greatest internal enemy....it pervades the entire society...
Sounds like the Fox is guarding the hen house.
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