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Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidency (www.atlanticcouncil.org)
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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 38 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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Damn, now even the Atlantic Council is Russian propaganda? Will those perfidious rooskies stop at nothing?

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I know, everything is now Russian propaganda.

Wikipedia posting the Ukraine source of this, means Wikipedia is now Russian-owned propaganda:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anti-Corruption_Bureau_of_Ukraine#cite_note-50

And even GrapheneOS too. The project owner of GrapheneOS didn't even specify which country because he was too afraid of the backlash, clearly he is now a Russian bot & GrapheneOS has become Russian for even telling us:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21819-impact-of-ongoing-war-on-grapheneos-development

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[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Eh. Just 110 million and Zelenskyy seems only tangentially involved. Wake me up when we find out he is friends with Epstein.

Good on the independent National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) for actually doing its job during wartime.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Ukraine, like many of the former Soviet states, has always had corruption problems. At least they’re trying to work through them right now.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How exactly are they trying to work through them? With more corruption?

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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Always? Or just since roughly 1991?

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I mean they weren’t exactly a separate entity in the USSR. And before that, The Ottomans?

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[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

"reportedly now in Israel."

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Well that fucking sucks

[–] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ukraine has always been corrupt AF

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

and people leave with mystery $$ and move to west Toronto.

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