New York Times je objavil raziskavo o korupciji v Ukrajini in ugotovil, da je sistemske narave in da je Zelenski načrtno sabotiral nadzor nad porabo denarja oziroma koruptivnimi praksami. Oziroma da je s sistematskim saboriranjem oblikovanja nadzornih organov omogočil razcvet sistemske korupcije. Evropski politiki priznavajo, da je korupcija v Ukrajini ogromna, vendar da je to potrebno tolerirati, ker je v vojni z Rusijo.
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine, Kyiv’s Western allies faced a dilemma: how to spend billions supporting a government fighting Russia without watching the money vanish into the pockets of corrupt managers and government officials.
The stakes were high because Ukraine’s vital wartime industries — power distribution, weapons purchases and nuclear energy — were controlled by state-owned companies that have long served as piggy banks for the country’s elite.
To protect their money, the United States and European nations insisted on oversight. They required Ukraine to allow groups of outside experts, known as supervisory boards, to monitor spending, appoint executives and prevent corruption.
Over the past four years, a New York Times investigation found, the Ukrainian government systematically sabotaged that oversight, allowing graft to flourish.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration has stacked boards with loyalists, left seats empty or stalled them from being set up at all. Leaders in Kyiv even rewrote company charters to limit oversight, keeping the government in control and allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent without outsiders poking around.
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