by Bernhard at Moon of Alabama
There has been a severe power struggle going on in Ukraine which the circle around acting president Vladimir Zelenski fighting against the former president Petro Poroshenko and his clique.
Today the power struggle went into a new round with fresh corruption accusation raise against intimate allies of Zelenski.
Zelenski has control over the ruthless Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The group around Poroshenko is allied with ‘grant structures’ previously close to the US Democratic Party.
‘Grant structures’ are the ‘civil society’ and the ‘anti-corruption’ parallel government organizations in Ukraine which were, until recently, financed by U.S. funds and controlled by Democrats. After Trump had blocked the funding for those groups Poroshenko jumped in with financing and the European Union took over.
The fight has been ongoing since 2022 when the war in Ukraine started for real. During the mid of this year the fight went public:
An intense information operation has been launched to remove Ukraine’s (former) President Vladimir Zelenski from office. Behind it are a cabal of Ukrainian opposition figures in coordination which western media and parts of the Trump administration.
The current campaign follows a earlier one which was directed against Zelenski’s main advisor and head of the office of the president Andrei Yermak.
Several pieces in major western outlets were launched against Zelenski and his clan. They were the preparatory fire for a wider attack which would accuse people around Zelenski, and finally himself, of large scale corruption schemes.
Zelenski tried to preempt the attack. On July 22 he put the whole anti-corruption vertical, including the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, under his control. That move caused open protest in Kiev by various non-government organization. The EU pushed back and Zelenski had to concede defeat. The Anti-Corruption vertical was released from supervision:.…
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Who is Timur Mindich, Zelensky’s secretive associate at the center of a major corruption probe?
by Oleg Sukhov at The Kyiv Independent
Timur Mindich, a businessman who is reportedly at the center of a major corruption probe, is a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelensky with interests in multiple industries.
Mindich, a co-owner of the president’s Kvartal 95 production company, has allegedly profited from his ties with Zelensky and dramatically increased his clout in recent years, according to journalist investigations.
An investigation into Mindich’s activities by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) was one of the factors that led to an attempt by the authorities to eliminate the NABU’s independence in July, law enforcement sources told the Kyiv Independent.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau conducted searches in Kyiv on Nov. 10 in premises connected to Mindich, law enforcement sources told the Kyiv Independent. Mindich had fled before the searches, according to the sources.
The NABU said on Nov. 10 it was investigating a major corruption scheme in the energy sector, including Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom. The Kyiv Independent source confirmed that it was part of the same case.
Mindich was not available for comment, while the president’s press service did not respond to requests for comment.
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