The war has diverted resources from anti-graft bodies—and created cover for crooks
, a veteran Ukrainian anti-corruption activist and journalist, has had plenty of scoops in his time. Yet none, he says, mimicking the sound of an explosion, “that blew up like this!” For several days Ukraine has been gripped by stories of corruption, resignations and the sackings of senior officials. Now the fate of Oleksii Reznikov, the minister of defence, is in question.
The article came out on the same day that Vasyl Lozynskiy, the deputy minister of infrastructure, was arrested for allegedly taking a $400,000 kickback in a case relating to the procurement of generators and other equipment. He was sacked the next day. Before the Maidan revolution of 2014, Ukraine was considered one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. Since then the country has built a series of increasingly effective anti-corruption institutions. Yet responding to the full-scale Russian invasion last February diverted resources from bodies like the intelligence arm of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau .
Tymofiy Mylovanov, the president of the Kyiv School of Economics and a former government minister, says that although the recent developments “look bad”, they can also be interpreted in a positive light. Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions are working.was already investigating the food contract before Mr Nikolov’s article, and it did not take a scoop to lead to Mr Lozynskiy’s arrest.
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