Reports in the media that the U.S. State Department awarded a former Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka the International Anticorruption Champions Award caused a certain outrage within the prosecutors’ community. Folks tried to remember the feats in the anticorruption area that Ruslan Georgiyovych managed to perform during his short but vivid […]
Whilst Ukrainian social media and news outlets are seething with discussions of the corrupt adventures of Andryi Yermak, a Head of the Office of the President, whose brother traded public posts, Volodymyr Zelenskyi is trying to feign Olympian calm. To all the questions, he responds, like, let the State Bureau […]
Anatoly Novak, a Deputy Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, is actively preventing the National Bank of Ukraine from seizing collateral from an enterprise belonging to an agrarian tycoon Oleg Bakhmatyuk lest a UAH 2.1B refinancing loan debt of the Financial Initiative bank, belonging to Bakhmatyuk, is cleared. […]
Four years ago, on February 7, 2016, a patrol police officer Serhiy Oliynyk shot dead a minor Mykhailo Medvediev with a service gun in Kyiv. Medvediev’s only “fault” was that he was a passenger in a car whose driver committed an administrative offence. Enraged polizeien embarked on a real manhunt, […]
Unfounded turned out to be the fears that Iryna Venediktova, a new head of the State Bureau of Investigations, will not be able to cope with her official duties, as she has never in her life dealt with criminal procedure and has no idea about how pre-trial investigation agencies function. […]