Ukraine Anti-Graft Agencies Investigate Group Involving Presidential Officials
The agencies said the suspects included a deputy presidential office chief and bank board heads in a money-laundering probe tied to a 150 million hryvnia case.
- On Wednesday, Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies announced investigations into senior officials within President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, a day after former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for national elections on Tuesday.
- Zelensky dismissed Fedorov last month to reconcile tensions between tech-savvy reformers and seasoned battlefield leaders, though the former minister remains popular and argues that "democracy is not a peacetime luxury."
- Recent polling from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology reveals 57 percent of Ukrainians oppose holding elections while the nation is at war, with only 15 percent supporting immediate voting.
- Parliament approved Yevhenii Khmara as the new defense minister on Wednesday, effectively blocking Fedorov's return, while Zelensky dismissed deputy chief of staff Iryna Mudra following anti-corruption raids on her office.
- Deep-Seated corruption remains a significant obstacle to Ukraine's European Union membership aspirations, as Kyiv faces pressure to meet strict legal and political standards to advance its path toward joining the bloc.
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This is Irina Mudra, who held the post of deputy to the chief of staff. The dismissal occurred after the authorities announced an operation directed against members of the presidential office and a Ukrainian deputy.
Volodymyr Zelensky separated on Wednesday 19 August from Iryna Moudra, a senior official of the Ukrainian presidency, after the country's anti-corruption authorities announced an operation targeting members of the Ukrainian...
The NABU suspects a bail-out of EUR 2.8 million in a case that has already cost the head of cabinet and two ministers last year.
The operation, according to the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency, targets "a criminal organisation that operated under the leadership of a current Ukrainian MP and a former MP, with the participation of senior officials of the Ukrainian Presidency".
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