President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law that abolished lifelong financial monitoring of politicians. This was reported on November 21 in the Ukrainian public organization “Anti-Corruption Action Center”.
“Despite calls for a veto, President Zelensky still signed a law that actually kills the system for combating money laundering by Ukrainian politicians. This is one of the seven requirements for starting negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU,” the center said on Twitter.
According to the organization, this law actually destroys the system of financial monitoring of politicians in Ukraine. In addition, the center pointed to the symbolism of the abolition of lifelong financial monitoring for politically exposed persons during the fighting in the Donbass.
As noted in the organization, politicians will be subject to strict monitoring only for three years after their dismissal.
“It is convenient, for example, for deputies who need to legalize the cash they received in envelopes. I waited three years, fell out of close monitoring, legalized the cash, and no one will ask the banks where they got it, how they earned it, and so on, ”the center wrote.
Earlier, on November 17, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ridiculed Zelensky’s words about the absence of corruption in Ukraine. She invited Zelensky to take on drug addicts after bribe-takers.
On November 3, it was reported that the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of Ukraine exposed a criminal scheme by which the former head of the state enterprise Ukrpatent and his accomplices embezzled state funds in the amount of UAH 250 million under the guise of purchasing body armor for the military.
Prior to that, on September 9, it became known that in Ukraine a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada was suspected of illegal enrichment. According to the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, his wife took more than $500,000 out of the country during a special military operation. At the same time, according to the declaration for 2020, the family earned only UAH 335,000, $10,000 and €15,000.
At the end of August, it became known that Ukrainian law enforcement officers exposed three representatives of the Ministry of Defense, who, when purchasing military ammunition for the army, stole about $580,000.
