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Top Ukraine officials exit in anti-corruption drive
The Guardian
|January 25, 2023
A number of top Ukrainian officials have been dismissed or resigned over the past four days amid corruption allegations as Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, takes a zerotolerance approach to the issue.
Fifteen senior officials have left their posts, six after corruption allegations levelled by journalists and anti-corruption authorities.
The departures started on Saturday when the deputy minister of infrastructure, Vasyl Lozinskyi, was detained by anti-corruption investigators and dismissed. He was accused by prosecutors of inflating the price of winter equipment, including generators, and allegedly siphoning off $400,000 (£325,000). Investigators also found $38,000 in cash in his office.
After Lozinskyi's detention, Zelenskiy vowed in his nightly address to take a zero-tolerance approach to corruption, a problem that has plagued Ukraine since independence.
This story is from the January 25, 2023 edition of The Guardian.
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