Critics argue some cases have highlighted serious issues with the way officials are targeting people
A fierce debate has broken out inover allegations that a clampdown on corruption is being used to frame high profile business advocates of state reform, raising wider doubts about Ukraine’s internal political trajectory – and its ability to absorb billions in European reconstruction funds once the war ends.
Katya Ryzhenko, from Transparency International Ukraine, called for a review of the anti-corruption authority of Ukraine . Some critics blame an excessive zeal by a country eager to impress the EU ahead of probable accession talks next year. Others blame ineptness or a punitive mindset still shaped by a Soviet-era distrust of profit.
Kóbolyev, who headed Naftogaz between 2014 and 2021, faces 12 years in jail if he is convicted of allegedly misleading Naftogaz board members into paying him a huge bonus in 2018. The prosecutors allege the payout breached a regulation capping executive bonuses at state-owned enterprises, and accuse Kóbolyev of misleading the Naftogaz board.Kóbolyev denies any wrongdoing, saying that he alerted the board to the regulation, but independent legal counsel advised that the board had the exclusive authority to decide on bonuses.
She said she has never been interviewed by Nabu. Nabu did not respond a request for comment on her claim. Kobolyev’s bonus may be morally questionable, but during his time at Naftogaz, he turned the firm from a failing company into one that supplied 15% of Ukraine’s total state revenue.he has used his knowledge of the Russian gas industry to push for tighter sanctions on Moscow
Dykhne describes the verdict as worthy of Kafka, and in an attempt to show the absurdity of the charge, hasA third case involves the former minister of infrastructure Andrei Pivovarsky, who is accused of depriving the state of $30m by deciding in 2015 that only half of the harbour dues in the Pivdennyi seaport on the Black Sea should go to the Ukrainian sea ports authority.
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