{"id":318589,"date":"2025-11-16T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318589"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:08:57","slug":"media-eu-disgusted-with-endemic-corruption-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318589","title":{"rendered":"Media: EU disgusted with \u2018endemic corruption\u2019 in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BORNA News \u2013 Nov 15, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

On Monday, Ukraine\u2019s anti-corruption agencies announced that they had uncovered a $100 million kickback scheme in energy sector contracts involving Zelensky\u2019s close associate and former business partner Timur Mindich, who was tipped off and fled the country, evading arrest. The affair has raised concerns among Kiev\u2019s Western backers, who heavily subsidize the country\u2019s power grid and its protection against Russian airstrikes.<\/p>\n

Politico cited an EU official as saying that\u00a0\u201cthe endemic corruption\u201d\u00a0in Ukraine is\u00a0\u201crevolting\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cwon\u2019t help\u201d\u00a0its reputation.\u00a0\u201cIt will mean (the European) Commission will surely have to reassess how it spends\u201d\u00a0funds on Ukraine\u2019s energy sector, the official said, adding that Kiev would have to provide\u00a0\u201cmore attention and transparency in how it spends cash.\u201d<\/p>\n

An EU government official told Politico that Zelensky\u00a0\u201cneeds to comfort everyone \u2026 with a plan on how to fix corruption.\u201d\u00a0A former senior Ukrainian official said he expected the EU to make aid more conditional on reforms, but argued that\u00a0\u201cthe overall taboo on criticizing Ukraine in public will hold.\u201d<\/p>\n

German Chancellor\u00a0Friedrich Merz told Zelensky over the phone this week that Berlin expected Ukraine to\u00a0\u201cpress ahead with anti-corruption measures and reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scandal has led to the resignation of two government ministers and damaged Zelensky\u2019s image at home and abroad, especially because he won the 2019 presidential election on an anti-corruption platform.<\/p>\n

He already faced a backlash over the summer when he tried to restrict the independence of the two leading anti-corruption bodies, NABU and SAPO, only to relent following protests in Kiev.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Zelensky imposed sanctions on Mindich and his business partner Aleksandr Zukerman, both of whom hold Israeli passports.<\/p>\n

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Two of Zelensky\u2019s associates and business partners have fled Ukraine after a scheme involving kickbacks of $100 in energy sector contracts was uncovered. Both Timur Mindic and his business partner Aleksandr Zukerman are thought to have fled to Israel <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318599,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318589\/revisions\/318599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}