Ukraine's anti-corruption court places Zelenskiy's former chief of staff Yermak under arrest
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agitatedprisoner@reddit
Anyone care to explain in practical terms what the racket is/was? Who was looking to launder this money? What was the source of the ill gotten money needing to be laundered?
NekoCatSidhe@reddit
I would be interested too. We get a lot of corruption trials in my own country, but it is often genuinely hard to know if the accused politicians were genuinely corrupted or if their opponents made shit up to try to destroy their rivals’ political careers.
agitatedprisoner@reddit
I've no reason to doubt this was indeed a case of money laundering but from a distance and lacking context how should I know? If I'd read about stuff like this at all this blurb of an article isn't enough to get a useful idea of what's going on in Ukraine. I consume lots of information that I've no choice but to take or leave because I've no way to check.
I've read some stories that I know were made up/false that were widely accepted as true and can't but wonder how much of my sense of world events is manipulated. I wonder why I should bother following the news at all sometimes? When it comes to what I personally see and hear around me, my culture is a hate culture. I live in the USA. So much hate.
Lopsided-Selection85@reddit
This article goes a bit deeper into the case.
https://kyivindependent.com/breaking-zelenskys-former-second-in-command-yermak-charged-in-major-corruption-probe/
Looks like Yermak was a part of previous corruption scandal with Nuclear Energy company, and was going to receive a mansion in Kiev for his efforts.
imunfair@reddit
This is the part of the movie where you think there's going to be a fair trial and dude isn't going to get off with a slap on the wrist like all Zelensky's other comrades that were allowed to flee the country once they became expendable.
This is the dude that Zelensky kept calling daily for administrative chats as the man behind the curtain even after the west pushed him out of his official chief of staff role. If there was any risk at all he would have been out of the country long ago - the result is a foregone conclusion and this whole thing is theater for the pro-UA's who still think Zelensky is master of some anti-corruption crusade rather than the subject at the center of a stereotypical oligarch-style corruption scandal.
TheBigOof96@reddit
Genuinely haven't heard anyone ever refer to Zelensky as some anti-corruotion crusader, especially given his attempts to limit the independece of NABU not even a year ago. But since the aggressor here is an even more fucked/corrupt/ologarch dystopia, there's no wonder why relatively more hope is put into Ukraine, which since 2014 has at least seen a slow but positive improvement in corruption perceptions index.
keepthepace@reddit
Well, what I read is that since 2014, it has actually been pretty fast at implementing anti-corruption measures because it wants to get to EU standards quickly.
I'm personally biased in favor of Zelensky, thinking that he probably can't overnight solve endemic corruption in a whole country while at war against a behemth enemy. But I'm inclined to believe that some powerful people being corrupt in his administration does not necessarily taint all of it.
kraw-@reddit
Go to r/worldnews and you'll be very, very surprised
Provodniik@reddit
He will flee as well, this is so obvious.
kwonza@reddit
I liked the part where Yermak consulted with a fortune teller about how to deal with the anti-corruption agency and this lady told him to “Act now or you’ll lose your power”
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