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Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
And this is what scares me the most.
I had heard before that Stefanyshyna is just a banal Komsomol-type “what do you want” with good bureaucratic skills. But in court it also turned out that Stefanyshyna tried to push Pavlo Kyrylenko to be head of NABU, the same person whom Zelensky ultimately put on the Antimonopoly Committee. And he also got criminal charges there for illegal enrichment — dozens of apartments bought with non-labor income. Can you imagine what would have happened if Stefanyshyna, for Zelensky and Yermak, had also ruined NABU? If NAPC doesn’t go after illegal millionaires, would NABU have folded for them too?
To me this is the story when everyone sees everything, but there is no inevitability of punishment. The corrupt get indulgences for their criminal modus vivendi. And only NABU and Shabu “jump on decent people, turning public service toxic because of them.” But then they talk among themselves: “Hey, Kolya, look how Olya’s doing, why are you hesitating, take more.”
And that’s how it became the new normal.
What’s frustrating is that it really wasn’t about terrifying piles of money. Stefanyshyna essentially legalized not billions on two apartments, she was caught on only 14 million hryvnias. Which she could even have earned at a private law firm. But that money was definitely illicit, because if it had been legal she would have simply paid taxes to the budget and lived peacefully. Instead she decided to save a few kopecks.
