Show with helicopters

In Kyiv, the Pechersky District Court elects the measure of restraint to former senior Ukrainian officials from the time of the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. They were detained on May 24 during a large -scale anti -corruption special operation , which took place simultaneously in 15 regions of Ukraine.

The anti -corruption special operation was attended by 1700 police officers and about 500 military prosecutors. As a result, 23 former high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Revenues and fees were detained, which are suspected of avoiding taxes and laundering money from 2011 to 2014. The two more managed to hide. It is alleged that the ex-minister of income and fees Alexander Klimenko , who fled after the “Revolution of Dignity”, was led by a criminal group. The damage caused to the state is estimated at 96 billion hryvnias (at the rate at that time - over $ 10 billion).

The detainees, in particular, in Poltava, Kharkov and the Dnieper on helicopters delivered Zhulyana airport to the Kiev airport, where they were met not only by special forces, but operators of the leading Ukrainian television channels. Corruptionaries brought to the Ukrainian capital were shown on the direct television. The detainees were taken from the airport to the Prosecutor General, where they were awarded decisions, and then to the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv to choose a preventive measure. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov told reporters on Thursday that he managed to confiscate with the detainees:

"3 kilograms of 700 grams of gold, 50 kilograms of silver, 5 and a half million dollars in cash. In addition, 3.8 million hryvnias, 280 thousand euros. The total damage from their activities is about 96 million hryvnias that entered the pockets of Klimenko, Yanukovych and their accomplices. Despite such scales, the court lets some of them with a personal obligation and we can’t understand this and we can’t understand this. I expect that the further decisions of the court for key defendants in this case will be more objective.

For a personal obligation, the court released the ex-heads of the tax inspectorate of Crimea Konstantin Kirkun and the Podolsky district of Kyiv Alexei Yaroshenko. In addition, the Pechersk court several senior officials from the time of the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych chose a preventive measure in the form of a two -month arrest with an alternative to the possibility of making a pledge in the amount of from one to 100 or more millions of hryvnias. The maximum cash deposit of 100 million 230 thousand hryvnias has appointed the court for the release of the former chairman of the State Tax Administration of the Kharkov region Stanislav Denisyuk. Reacting to the ironic question of users of social networks: “Will the courts who have already released it by helicopters?”, The chief military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios replied : “No! Most likely, helicopters will fly to those who are definitely not waiting for them! But a little later.”

In absentia in February of this year, Kiev’s appeal court on charges of taking possession of state property on an especially large scale - and now, probably in Moscow, Alexander Klimenko wrote on Facebook: “The so -called large -scale anti -corruption operation in the history of Ukraine is nothing more than PR and the show, which was prepared for the report on May 24 of the General Prosecutor Yuri Lutsenko.” This story is convinced by Klimenko, according to the plan of its organizers, should distract Ukrainians from the war in the Donbass, the economic crisis and crazy declarations of the current representatives of the Ukrainian authorities.

The head of the Institute of Global Strategies Vadim Karasev discusses the conducted anti -corruption special operation and its consequences:

The current power is in full swing with the corrupt officials of the previous government - and is far behind in the fight against corruption in its ranks

"Indeed, it was a media show with a Hollywood scope-using the special forces for the forces of the special forces detained in air transport from regions to Kyiv. But now any anti-corruption or other kind of political campaign is also a kind of show so that this act is impressed by all media consumers. On the other hand, this is still not empty PR-dumbbells, it is a kind Many of them will either have to make a deal with the investigation and return the stolen money to the state budget, or to leave the country and hide from Ukrainian justice The current power fights with the corrupt officials of the previous government - and is far behind the fight against corruption in their ranks. Verkhovna Rada ".

According to the chief military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios, Roman Nasirov, who was removed in March from the post of head of the State Fiscal Service, contributed to the current investigation. The National Anti -Corruption Bureau (NABU) charges Nasirov "abuse of power and official position, which led to losses to the state of more than $ 70 million." Some experts do not exclude that Matios’s statement is designed to restore the tarnished reputation of Nasirov. Continues Vadim Karasev :

“I don’t think that the authorities are fraught with their goal to completely whitewash Nasirov. But to some extent they try to rehabilitate it, add a little positive to the negative portrait painted during the NABU investigation. And this can be associated with the very involved in the loud business of NABU and with a latent, often breaking through the public competition. I would not use the word“ conflict ”here, namely,“ competition ”, namely,“ competition ” - Between law enforcement agencies that are generally controlled by the Ukrainian political elite.

After the "revolution of dignity" in Ukraine, with the assistance of Western structures, many new bodies in combating corruption appeared. In addition to the anti -corruption bureau, this is a specialized anti -corruption prosecutor’s office, the National Corruption prevention agency, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the National Council for Anti -Corruption Policy under the President. Nevertheless, the creation of these institutions has not yet led to radical successes. Vitaly Kupri lies with responsibility for this Verkhovna Rada deputy of the Verkhovna Rada to the head of state Petro Poroshenko and his team, who, according to the parliamentarian, are engaged only in self -promotion, conducting expensive anti -corruption operations in relation to their predecessors:

"The Verkhovna Rada deputies and ordinary Ukrainians critically evaluate the last anti -corruption operation of the authorities. Was it necessary to attract helicopters in order to deliver the detainees to Kyiv, where the metropolitan court later released? And did it really need to be timed to the performance in the Rada of the Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko? Many Ukrainians believe that the struggle believes that the struggle believes that the struggle believes With the corrupt officials of the previous regime, it is not as relevant as the fight against current officials, law enforcement officers who also evade taxes and steal money from the state treasury. ”

Was it necessary to attract helicopters in order to deliver the detainees to Kyiv, where the metropolitan court later released them?

Last month, Ukraine confiscated from the accounts of the country's President Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage in the state Oschadbank about one and a half billion dollars. President Poroshenko then said that this money would be directed primarily to the needs of the National Army, and announced the blocking of funds in the accounts of other former senior officials. A month later, it became known that several investment companies registered in Cyprus claimed for confiscated money . They argue that they have nothing to do with Yanukovych or the representatives of his former team, and consider the decision of the Kramatorsky Court of the Donetsk region to the application of the confiscation procedure to their property illegal.