Ukraine’s agriculture minister, Mykola Solskyi, has been detained after being named as a formal suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption inquiry.
Blighted by corruption scandals since the fall of the Soviet Union, Kyiv has pledged to bolster its anti-graft efforts as part of its bid for EU membership.
Solskyi was accused of illegally seizing land worth more than $7m (£5.6m) when he was the head of a major farming company and a member of parliament.
An anti-corruption court ordered him to be held in custody until 24 June, prosecutors said. Bail was set at 75.7m hryvnias ($1.9m).
Solskyi offered his resignation this week and promised to cooperate with the investigation.
Prosecutors said on Friday they had charged a dozen other people in the case, including civil servants.
Solskyi, who owned a number of farming businesses, was elected to Ukraine’s parliament in 2019 and was appointed agriculture minister in March 2022. more
Almost the most corrupt nation in tge world – right behind one one funding it.
FJB FMJ
More interesting than watching who in Ukraine steals the money coming from the outside, is to follow the money BACK to where it came from: namely, the US. Indirectly (and very cleverly) it goes back into the pockets of the likes of Pelosi (via inside stock tips by the companies getting the benefit of the money the US and Europe sends). Look to the democrat coffers and you’ll see cash laundered in Ukraine. Look to Iran’s coffers and you’ll see money laundered in Ukraine. Look in China’s coffers, McConnell’s coffers, the GOPe’s coffers, Hollywood’s coffers, the news media company coffers – you’ll find money laundered through Ukraine. And do we even need to say look at Clinton, Obama and Biden’s coffers to see money laundered in Ukraine and Haiti?
Ukraine TOWERS Over Other Recipients of U.S. Aid:
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts#:~:text=The%20Joe%20Biden%20administration%20and,Economy%2C%20a%20German%20research%20institute.
Hryvnia sounds like something you get if you aren’t careful when lifting weights.
It’s really getting old having to comment on the severely retarded assholes governing our formerly great country. In any event, Ukraine is nothing more than a money laundering corruption of the most currant political party governing the USA. I hate to be a party pooper, but the current party has just pooped all over the American public
Biden will be bragging next week about how he got the investigation quashed, got this Slowitzki fella out of jail, by threatening to withhold 90,000,000 votes—er, dollars, from Ukraine. The media will pretend he didn’t say it, and even if he did, it was impressive Realpolitik by the master of hard-nosed diplomacy.
“Solskyi offered his resignation this week and promised to cooperate with the investigation.”
Sure he will. All of the Western vulture capitalists waiting to pick the carcass of Ukraine clean can’t wait to hear him sing.
No, say it isn’t so.
That’s one. Now how about Zalenski?
Fire the prosecutor or you don’t get the $60 billion. Just kidding, you’re gonna get the money, minus 10%.
What about Biden, Pelosi, Graham, Romney, Schumer, Eyepatch, and the thousands of moneylaundering recipients in this country???
BlackRock and other globalists already have bought up nearly half of Ukraine’s farmland in return for “funding” the “war effort”. Europe’s “bread basket”.
Don’t get too excited that Zelensky is cracking down on any corruption. Something else is going on.
Look!
Over there!
A squirrel!
$Billions being stolen and this guy is investigated for $7 Million?
Yeah, they’re really cracking down on corruption!
Anybody who falls for this bullshit should buy that bridge I have for sale in NYC.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
“Anybody who falls for this bullshit should buy that bridge I have for sale in NYC.”
Hey Tim
They’d get a better deal on my bridge that goes to Hawaii.