Germany and the US pledge tanks; the man leading Ukraine’s fight against corruption
this week amid corruption allegations. As Volodymyr Zelenskiy attempts to take a zero-tolerance approach to the issue,Fifteen senior officials have left their posts since Saturday, six of whom have had corruption allegations levelled at them by journalists and Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities.
For the first two months of the war in Ukraine, Novikov, 40, lived with a coterie of his staff in the basement of the austere offices of the national agency on corruption prevention in Kyiv. “We have a munitions room – it has machine guns. We were ready to fight on these streets,” Novikov says, looking down from the window of his third-floor boardroom.
It is his fourth and final year as head of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency, and while the Russians didn’t end up on his doorstep in Ukraine’s capital last February, the former public prosecutor’s appetite for battle against the odds has not been sated., behind only Russia, a position Novikov set out to turn around, only to find his task made significantly harder by Covid and Vladimir Putin.
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