US EditionUkraine's government suspends justice minister amid energy corruption investigation
The probe involves $100 million in kickbacks linked to state nuclear operator Energoatom and led to resignations of Ukraine's energy and justice ministers amid public outrage.
- Ukraine's prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that justice minister German Galushchenko has been suspended amid a corruption scandal in the country's energy sector.
- Galushchenko said he supports the government's decision to suspend him and that he will defend himself in court.
- The investigation involves accusations that the former energy minister received personal benefits from an ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky in exchange for control over money flows in the energy sector.
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Zelensky remains a creature of the corruption plaguing Ukraine
The $100 million corruption scandal around Ukraine’s energy system that broke this past week is critical to ordinary Ukrainians for its timing. Russia has been bombarding the country’s energy infrastructure on a daily basis to deny ordinary citizens heat and electricity during the cold and dark winter months. In November 2024, a separate scandal broke that $1.6 billion set aside to build protective bunkers around electricity sub-stations had not…
Scandal in the energy sector: 100 million bribes to the civil servants of the public nuclear society. Five arrests. Volodymyr Zelensky loses face. Moscow attacks: "European money taken away from the Ukrainian regime" . Berlin: "Worried, now we will watch." A new corruption scandal overwhelms Kiev, putting in crisis the credibility of the government in the middle of the war against Russia and igniting tensions with the Western allies. President V…
The last two Ministers of Energy of Kiev, Grynchuk and Galushchenko resign
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