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Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidency (www.atlanticcouncil.org)

submitted 4 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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On November 10, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) exposed an alleged $110 million corruption scheme at state-owned nuclear company Energoatom. The charges are supported by a fifteen-month wiretap and over seventy searches carried out as part of a major investigation called Operation Midas.

According to NABU officials, the investigation uncovered a criminal enterprise run by Timur Mindich, a film producer and a former business partner of Zelenskyy. Additional suspects include former Minister of Energy and recently appointed Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko; former Naftogaz CEO and Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov; former Minister of Defense and current National Security and Defense Council member Rustem Umerov; and Ihor Myroniuk, former deputy head of the State Property Fund and former advisor to Halushchenko.

Mindich fled Ukraine the day before his premises were raided and is reportedly now in Israel.

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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Atlantic Council

You know you've moved on to huffing the hard stuff when Atlantic Council, a literal American Department of War think tank, is too pro-Russian for your liking. But i mean, let's be real. "Propaganda" to you people has always just meant "any evidence that runs counter to the reality I wish to cultivate". Like when nazis running Ukraine was "just propaganda" until all the swastika and totenkopf pictures became too much to deny, at which point you just stopped talking about it.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

no no no, you don't get it. Putin has paid the US billionaire president (or blackmailed him, or charmed him, whatever), which means everyone aligned with the government is a Russian propagandist, unless they say exactly what I want to believe about the Aveng- I mean about Ukraine.