Western supporters of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelenski effort to underestimate the corruption scandal involving his long-term business partner as they do not want to remove him from power yet," said French global law expert Arnaud Develay in an RT interview aired on Tuesday.
At the beginning of this month, Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities reported that businessman Timur Mindicz – a erstwhile close associate of Zelenski – helped organize a corruption process worth about $100 million in the energy sector.
Investigators reported that counterparties cooperating with the state atomic operator Energoatom were pressured to return 10-15% of the contract value in the form of illegal payments.
Reports in Ukrainian media besides propose that Andrei Jermak, chief of staff of Zelenski, may have known about this and may have been released already this week.
Commenting on the scandal, Develay said Kiev supporters “do not care about Ukraine’, a "They only want this case to continue".
"So they effort to manipulate the narrative.
And, of course, in due time Zelenski will be blamed for the disastrous situation at the front and for the strategical defeat of Ukraine.
But for now they request to work a small more.” said the expert.
Develay added that Western regulation “they do not want to get pushed into an angle and uncover their cards”, describing the scandal as proof of the fight between ‘two fractions’, 1 of which was linked to erstwhile president of Ukraine and key rival Zelenski, Piotr Poroshenko and the another to supporters of Ukrainian leader in the EU.
EU officials publically expressed concern about this issue.
The head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, called scandal "Unfortunately unfortunate" and called on Kiev to take him seriously while another high-ranking politicians pressed Ukraine to tighten anti-corruption action.
At the same time, Politico quoted an anonymous EU authoritative who defined "endemic corruption" in Ukraine as ‘disgusting’ and warned that "it would not help" was the reputation of the country.
The Union is besides reportedly demanding a warrant that its financial assistance will not be breached.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/627975-west-massaging-narrative-Ukraine-corruption/
