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SEMYN SEMENCHENKO: The General Prosecutor is the last bulwark of those who have avaricious interests in Ukraine
Many EU officials are fed up with Ukraine.
The piece titled “Kyiv Struggles with General Corruption”, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal on 1 January, notes that the Ukrainian authorities did not make enough effort to bring to account those Yanukovych regime figures who, after his flight from the country, remained in Ukraine.
“Because Kyiv did not press criminal charges against them, EU officials said sanctions against the relevant individuals could be lifted as early as spring,” the publication writes.
In a conversation with The Wall Street Journal, several Western officials spoke of specific negative sentiments toward Ukraine within European institutions.
“There is concern that within a year all these people will have access to their assets in the West. After that, no one will support sanctions again. Many EU officials are fed up with Ukraine,” the publication’s anonymous sources quote one of their interlocutors as saying.
Interestingly, the Wall Street Journal article begins with the story of a deputy Parasyuk kicking the chair at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada committee on anti‑corruption. And, unlike many deputies, “experts” and “micropropagandists on Facebook” (Serhii Ivanov©), the Wall Street Journal author apparently believes that Ukraine’s shame lies not in parliamentary brawls, but in corruption from which the fight does not succeed.
“At a parliamentary meeting on combating corruption, Ukrainian lawmaker Volodymyr Parasyuk sought to land his own blow against graft—by kicking in the face an official he says owns luxury properties worth much more than a state salary could provide. Almost two years after a revolution that brought down a president...,”
Scandals with fights, “flying glasses,” and wrestling-style clashes in parliament involving lawmakers are used as a standard way to distract the public from real problems: corruption, the budget, taxes, etc. (these are no longer quotes)
It is absolutely clear that the main ally of Putin in Ukraine is precisely corruption and the state officials who head it. It is also the main factor influencing the weakening of international support for Ukraine in the war with Russia. Therefore it is very important to push for the adoption of bills on the Verkhovna Rada’s temporary investigative commissions, which allow MPs to have full rights to investigate within investigative commissions, as well as to complete gathering signatures for the resignation of the general prosecutor. It is critically important that NABU and the courts start real prosecutions of corrupt officials.
In conditions where old corrupt figures are not punished, and two years have produced a whole cadre of new thieves, the period for therapeutic treatment by society is running out. Next comes surgical intervention: elections or the guillotine,” writes Semyon Semenchenko on his Facebook page.
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