Even as he fights against Russia’s invasion, President Zelenskyy is eager to show his public—as well as Western governments whose aid his country relies upon—that he is also continuing to wage war on graft in Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt public sector.
and will be hoping the wartime purge will help those bids and won’t boost the Kremlin’s efforts to undermine its reputation.
Shapovalov and the ousted prosecutor did not respond to a request for comment. NBC News has not verified the reports of his travel. The pursuit of corrupt officials has been led by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau, an investigative agency established in 2015. This week, the bureau announced that a deputy minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development had been detained while allegedly receiving a $400,000 cash bribe. The deputy minister could not be reached for comment.
“We’re confident this is a first step in a long journey to change the way business is done,” Graham said.
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