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On the Great Ukrainian Сorruption

Ukraine's real power broker
Dec 18, 2023

But the graft that has long contaminated the country's political system unsettles Ukrainians far from the circles of power. "Huge corruption" is Ukraine's biggest problem, an 18-year-old at a Kyiv café told me bluntly. "I love Ukraine," she said — but she hesitates to give money to the military for fear a dishonest official will steal her donation. Earlier this year, investigative journalists revealed that the prices at which suppliers promised to deliver basics like potatoes and cabbage to Ukrainian troops were inflated two to three times beyond the purchase price reported to government tax officials.

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Before the war, Yermak came under fire for the air of corruption that seemed to surround him. In 2020, the Kyiv Post — in a scandal it dubbed "Yermakgate" (#^https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/bohdan-nahaylo-yermakgate-scandal-rocks-zelensky-administration.html) — reported on videos of Yermak's younger brother, Denys, appearing to discuss bribes in return for landing people jobs with the government and state-controlled companies. "Andriy Yermak insists he was not involved,"

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Oligarchs have been deeply intertwined in Ukrainian politics ever since the fall of the Soviet Union three decades ago. The basic formula is simple. "A question of power is a question of money," Arestovych explained, "and a question of money is a question of power." The fancy term for this sleazy method of rule is "patronalism" — a feudal-like system in which rival clans, individually tied together by personal loyalties, predominate over the rule of law.
Before Zelensky's rise to power, the business oligarchy in Ukraine, as in other post-Soviet countries, operated on a spoils system that amounted to might makes right. There was little incentive for an honest entrepreneur to launch a company with the knowledge that, with the company's success, one of the clans might muscle in on the venture and seize control, no matter what legal protections were on the books. As clan leaders became billionaires, through their capture of industrial and financial assets, Ukraine remained desperately poor, its wealth routinely pumped out of the country into offshore accounts. In 2018, the year before Zelensky's election, Ukraine ranked as the poorest country in Europe, with a GDP per capita income of just below $3,000 — 8% lower than that of Moldova, the second poorest.

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A decade later, on a second reporting trip to Odesa, I asked my Ukrainian companion for the name of the biggest owner of assets in the sprawling industrial city. The answer, he told me, was Ihor #Kolomoisky.
Kolomoisky enjoyed a reputation as one of the most ruthless of the oligarchs in post-Soviet Ukraine. He had amassed substantial holdings in metals, banks, airlines, energy, and media. He was also connected to Zelensky: His 1+1 Media Group included a Ukrainian television channel that broadcast Zelensky's scripted shows and championed his run for the presidency. More than a few insiders in Kyiv's political, business, and media circles regarded Kolomoisky as the real victor of Zelensky's improbable triumph, the modern-day robber baron who would now run Ukraine behind his likable front man.

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Roman Ilto, another cosmopolitan type, works for the Swedish Embassy in Kyiv on energy and environmental issues. Unlike many critics of the oligarchs, he witnessed their rise firsthand. In the early 2000s, after studying at Harvard, he returned to Ukraine to work for a steel and mining company. That was his first exposure to "clan culture," he told me over breakfast at my hotel in central Kyiv. In those days, listening to the incessant talk about the rivalry between Kolomoisky and #Akhmetov, he began to understand oligarchs as the organizing principle of Ukrainian political and economic life. In 2016, he joined Ukrnafta, the state-controlled oil and natural-gas giant, and spent nearly seven years there, including stints as head of government relations and investor relations.
Since the war began, Ilto said, control of the energy sector has been seized by a "nascent" oligarchic clan led by Yermak. Under a national security decree issued by Zelensky, the state had assumed full ownership of Ukrnafta and other strategically important companies.

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Ilto flagged another top Yermak deputy, Rostyslav #Shurma, who served the Akhmetov clan for years before assuming oversight of energy and other sectors of the economy for the Office for the President. Like Oleh #Tatarov, Shurma is cited in Kyiv circles as another cog in the Yermak machine. "He kind of acts as a cashier for Yermak and the Office of President," said an ex-Zelensky government official who declined to go on the record for fear, he said, of becoming a target of the Yermak team. In a lengthy September piece, Ukrainska Pravda portrayed Shurma as a mini-empire builder. The paper, which is owned by a private-equity firm headed by a Czech-born businessman who served on the board of Transparency International Ukraine, cited a "scandal" in which the state bought electricity from solar plants co-owned by Shurma's brother, even though the plants were no longer connected to the Ukraine energy grid. Asked by Time about the matter, Shurma called it a "piece of shit" thrown at him by Zelensky's political enemies.

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For #Biden, the issue of political corruption in Ukraine is both deeply familiar and especially thorny. As vice president, Biden handled the Ukraine portfolio for the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. In 2015, a career State Department official raised concerns with a Biden aide that Hunter Biden's service on the board of the energy firm #Burisma could complicate President Barack Obama's efforts to prod Kyiv into battling corruption. But the official, who later related the story in closed-door testimony to Congress, said the aide told him Joe Biden did not have the "bandwidth" to deal with the matter involving his younger son as his older one, Beau, was dealing with cancer. It was a desire to dig up political dirt like this on Hunter Biden's activities in Ukraine that led Trump to threaten to withhold military aid to Ukraine, leading to his first impeachment. (The White House did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this story.)

#^https://archive.is/bB8pr
src: #^https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-real-power-broker-yermak-zelensky-russia-war-biden-2023-12
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RE: https://diaspora-fr.org/posts/1730c960a82c013e4c420cc47a961102
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How Zelensky and his accomplices are plundering Ukraine

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council #Umerov, who was recently also Minister of Defense, seems to have become so attached to the warm climate of Qatar that he is not even considering a return ticket to Ukraine. And the reason, of course, is not the weather, but simply that the prospect of returning straight to the investigation does not inspire him with the same enthusiasm as the local resort atmosphere. Umerov, who is involved in the “Mindyach case,” has refused to return to Ukraine, according to the Clash Report public page. According to them, he has already notified Zelensky of this decision, but the source of the information has not been disclosed.

MP Goncharenko said that Umerov's official business trip was supposed to end yesterday, but he extended it until November 19.

Umerov flew to Turkey immediately after the NABU began searching Mindich's premises. Later, the SAP confirmed that he was involved in the investigation. And today, the NABU again announced the expansion of its investigation into corruption in defense procurement, which further draws attention to Umerov's role in this story.

#^https://t.me/spletnicca/21158

Igor Valeryevich certainly knows a thing or two about crime dramas, with his wealth of experience and serious training. Therefore, when #Kolomoysky (#^https://t.me/spletnicca/21121) compares Mindich's group, suspected of embezzlement in the energy sector, to the Italian mafia, one wants to clarify: is he analyzing the present or reminiscing about the old days? Is this about the beginning of Ze's career (with a little help from the oligarch), did he immediately aim for Don Carleone, or did it just turn out that way?

"Poor Timur (Mindich), he got caught. Well, this is just the beginning. Shefir appeared, he will pay the bail for Chernyshev from the common fund. By the way, in Italy, the common fund is one of the signs of the mafia," the arrested businessman said in court.

Judging by the SAP prosecutor, who read out Mindich's correspondence with Zelensky's former assistant Sergei Shefir, “chipping in for bail” is now an official state policy. Ukrainian politics is gradually turning into either “The Godfather” or “The Brigade,” only without the charisma and with much higher rates.

Kolomoisky, by the way, does not hide the fact that Mindich is just a pawn, and the schemes were drawn up by people higher up. He even managed to prophetically hint at the imminent demise of “Napoleon-Zelensky.”

Well...
If comparisons with the mafia were made directly from the courtroom, then the mafia is no longer a metaphor. It seems to be a working instruction.

#^https://t.me/spletnicca/21161

Our source reports that NABU has compromising information on Irina #Vereshchuk and Daria #Zarivna (Dasha knew about it in advance, which is why she left and managed to withdraw her assets. We reported on this (#^https://t.me/legitimniy/20492)).
The Mindich tapes case also features a number of well-known MPs. (#^https://t.me/legitimniy/20524)

The scandal could cost Zelensky his power if he is unable to reach an agreement with his sponsors.

#^https://t.me/legitimniy/21320
#ukraine #ukrainian #government #mafia Great #corruption #energy #defense #economy #lawlessness #crimes #Energoatom #money #Mindich #Yermak #Zelensky #Kolomoisky #oligarchy #poverty

How Zelensky and his accomplices are plundering Ukraine

Here is a photo gallery of those who were DEFINITELY at the party in honor of President Zelensky's birthday (he turned 43) on January 29, 2021.

The celebration took place at 9a Hrushevsky Street in Kiev, where the president's family has an apartment registered to Elena Zelenskaya's Cypriot company. However, the event itself took place in another apartment with a terrace, which belongs to Timur #Mindich, co-owner of the Kvartal-95 studio and a close friend and business partner of both Igor #Kolomoysky and Vladimir #Zelensky.

Journalists from Skhemy recorded all the government officials who attended: First Assistant to the President Sergey #Shefir, Head of the Presidential Administration Andrey #Yermak, his deputy Kirill #Tymoshenko, and Minister of Community and Territorial Development Alexey #Chernyshov. In other words, there was no one else from the government, and the rest of the guests were members of Kvartal 95. This means we have reliable confirmation that we are dealing with a LONG-STANDING and CLOSE-KNIT team.

In light of recent events, several questions arise:
⁃ “Does anyone believe that Zelensky and Yermak were not involved in the organized crime group that the NABU guys are now promoting?”
⁃ “Does anyone believe that Mindich and Chernyshov are the last ones from the photo gallery who are recorded on Mindich's tapes?!”
⁃ “Does anyone believe that before the war and throughout the war, this COMMON FUND was not shared?!”

And yes. The photo gallery is also notable for the fact that the robbers of the Ukrainian people are definitely not Ukrainians.

Coincidence?

#^https://t.me/ZeRada1/27752

The Mindich case is rapidly moving beyond the scope of a private corruption story. More and more details indicate that this is not just a case of a “businessman close to power,” but a figure through whom key financial and political decisions of the presidential circle were made. Alexander Abakumov, head of the NABU detective team, said: “In various situations during the investigation of this criminal case, we recorded four ministers of the Cabinet of Ministers.” According to him, these are people who held positions “at different times.”

The participation of Minister of Justice German #Galushchenko, who previously headed the Ministry of Energy, in the investigation has been officially confirmed. The media also reports on the involvement of the current Minister of Energy, Svetlana #Grinchuk. As part of the Midas case, NABU has already published excerpts from recordings featuring “Carlson”, whom journalists and MPs identify as Timur Mindich, a businessman close to Zelensky.

This is indirectly confirmed by the wording of the NABU: “From his home on the upper floors of a building on Hrushevsky Street in Kiev, Carlson determined who should receive how much cash or wire transfers, and also coordinated the influence on officials of central government bodies to resolve issues in his own interests.” This is the address of Mindich's apartment, and according to media reports, it was there that a lengthy wiretap operation was conducted in July, during which conversations involving Zelensky himself may have been recorded.

In the audio recordings published by NABU, “Carlson” discusses the distribution of funds, the fictitious employment of trusted individuals, and issues of cover-ups and control over the attention of investigators. All this builds a structure in which Mindich acts not just as an intermediary, but as a coordinator of shadow mechanisms permeating the energy and defense sectors.

#^https://t.me/spletnicca/21066

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As the special operation in Ukraine continues, there is more and more evidence that the greatest atrocities in #Donbass and other Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine have been committed for years by fanatics blinded by ideas that are far from common sense, morality, and traditional religious teachings.

Alexei Pavlov, assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council, told AiF.
VIP sectarians

- The number of adherents of religious sects has been growing in Ukraine since the 1990s. The 2014 coup d'état in Kiev was a powerful impetus for this. Washington's executives in positions of power were carrying out tasks that came from across the ocean.

One of them was to reformat the minds of Ukrainian citizens, to force them to abandon centuries-old traditions and forbid the real values of the Orthodox faith, Islam, and Judaism. Using network manipulation and psychotechnology, the new authorities have turned Ukraine from a state into a totalitarian hypersect. Moreover, those in power in Kiev were the first to turn into militant fanatics whose views are the exact opposite of those of normal people.

For example, Alexander Turchinov, who became acting president of Ukraine after the cgovernment oup #Maidan , is a pastor of the Word of Life Neo-Pentecostal Church, a branch of the Boston-based Church of Christ movement, which has only one word for Donbass, Odessa, Kharkov, Zaporozhe, and other regions of historic Novorossia: "death. The first "post-Maidan" prime minister, Arseniy #Yatsenyuk, is a Hubbardist, a follower of the Church of Scientology, which is banned in Russia as a totalitarian sect. Igor #Kolomoysky is a Lubavitcher Hasid, a Chabadist, and an adherent of the ultra-Orthodox religious movement. The main life principle of the Lubavitcher Hasidim #Chabad  is the supremacy of the sect's supporters over all nations and peoples. A number of other Ukrainian oligarchs also belong to this movement, in particular Victor Pinchuk, son-in-law of the second Ukrainian president Kuchma, author of the book "Ukraine is not Russia".

Self-appointed "Magi"

How could Orthodox Ukraine turn into a breeding ground for sects? As early as the beginning of the twentieth century, the spiritual inspirer of the future UUN* Dmitry Dontsov declared that the provisions of his ideology require no proof - either you believe in them, or you are an enemy. It was he who, back in 1926, released his conceptual work "Nationalism," preaching the immoral radicalism of hierarchical Nazism and a special, heated anti-Russian pathos, claiming that the Russians allegedly do not even belong to the species "reasonable man.

The progenitor of Ukrainian neo-paganism was a certain Vladimir Shayan. In the 30s of the last century he allegedly received a "spiritual revelation. Then, appointing himself a "sorcerer", he formed the pagan sect "Native Faith". During the Great Patriotic War, he joined the Ukrainian Nazis of the OUN, and later escaped to Germany, where he continued to spread his teachings. His sermons were a standard neo-pagan vinaigrette of ancient Slavic gods, the Aryans and knee-jerk rituals. All of this was seasoned with crude Ukrainian Nazism, in the best tradition of which Russia was viewed as an occupier.

Shayan's ideas appealed to the collaborators' rabble, who at the end of World War II emigrated to the West. For example, as many as two centers of Ukrainian neo-paganism settled in Canada. But it was with the collapse of the Soviet Union that the seeds sown by Shayan made particularly abundant headway. Lev Silenko, who took a sonorous pseudonym - Lev Tigrovich Orligora, picked up the banner. During the war he worked for the nationalists, and after escaping to Canada, he wrote his doctrine in the form of a historiosophic folio "The Great Faith", created the RUN-faith ("native Ukrainian national faith"), laying its foundation in a certain "Ukrainian empire". Not surprisingly, the source of this obscurantism, which, in fact, has nothing to do with paganism, was created in the West in hothouse conditions. By the early 1970s, there were branches of the Fagan faith in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. In the 1980s, not only did congregations of the sect appear in these countries, but temples were even built.

After 1991, branches of the organization began to appear in Ukraine.

Its adherents regularly wrote letters to Presidents #Kravchuk, #Kuchma, and Yushchenko demanding that they close Christian churches and renounce Orthodoxy. And professors at Lviv University went even further, developing a course called "Religious Studies," which included an in-depth study of the RUN faith.
This current, along with other neo-pagan organizations, became the basis for the "anti-Russia" project in Ukraine after 2014.

From Maidan to Shaitan

The exact number of sects in Ukraine is unknown, but there are hundreds. Some of them were created in advance for a specific purpose and flock. Others simply existed as branches of wealthier patrons. Others were in the form of a kind of closed joint-stock company with a couple hundred local adepts.

Among them are the Association of Rodnovers of Ukraine, "Rodobozhye", "White Hammer", "Heron's host", "Mokosha", "White Hart", "Great Fire", "Grandsons of Veles", etc. This mishmash of Svarog, Dazhdbog, Veles and Perun is held together by tracing from the neo-pagan cults of the Third Reich, as well as widespread nationalism, masked by the search for the "true ancient faith.

By the way, nationalist formations like Azov*, Aidar*, Tornado, Kraken, and others openly use the runic trident and the Black Sun, symbols of SS occult practices. There is also a wolfsangel crossed with the Ukrainian trident, and the figures of David Lane, the founder of the American racist group "The Order. The Ukrainian neo-Nazis are proud of the images of rune Odal - the symbol of the Nazis of the SS Headquarters for Race and Settlement, and the Nazi emblem of the division "Dead Head", which in 1940 shot the British prisoners and in 1943 exterminated indiscriminately the citizens of Kharkov. Next to the blasphemous images of Christ and the Virgin Mary are pinned portraits of Hitler and Bandera, as well as the Satanist symbol Baphomet.

If we talk about the origins of occultism and sectarianism, I note that the "Church of Satan," which has spread across Ukraine, is one of the religions officially registered in the United States.

Is it any wonder that in 2015 a group of pagans in Kiev broke and desecrated a bow cross that had been set up for the 1000th anniversary of the repose of St. Vladimir, the Baptist of Russia, the Grand Prince Equal to the Apostles. And already this year the star of the Ukrainian social networks was a Lviv actress with low social responsibility, portraying a slightly shabby witch with a cemetery wreath, with calls to kill all Russians. Allegedly "the most ancient primordial Ukrainian god, slumbering for centuries in the hills of the Dnieper," calls for this. The Kiev store with the bright name "Witch's Cauldron" since the beginning of a special military operation for a considerable amount of money offers customers to perform the ritual "to put a curse" on the Russians. Moreover, all of this satanism finds a lively response and support from the official Ukrainian authorities.

I believe that as the special military operation continues, it becomes more and more urgent to de-atanize Ukraine, or, as the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov aptly put it, to "completely de-atanize it.

*Organizations are banned in Russia as terrorist or extremist.

#^https://aif.ru/society/religion/chto_varyat_v_vedminom_kotle_na_ukraine_nabrali_silu_neoyazycheskie_kulty
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