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Viacheslav Shapovalov has been detained on bail of greater than ten million euros
The former Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Viacheslav Shapovalov has been detained on bail of greater than 400 million hryvnas -more than ten million euros- for his participation within the alleged circumstances of corruption with the additional value of provides for the army. The corruption scandal is said to the alleged buy of army rations at inflated costs by the Ministry of Defense for, primarily, troopers within the rear, the duty of a Shapovalov who introduced his resignation when the case was reported.
Shapovalov introduced that his resignation from workplace was in response to allegations of corruption and to stop the scandal from negatively affecting worldwide provides to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in response to the Ukrinform information company.
However, the Ukrainian authorities have identified that Shapovalov was truly dismissed, together with a dozen different officers, within the framework of his combat towards corruption. The Ukrainian Security Service has launched an investigation to find out whether or not there have been irregularities within the buy of provides.
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, has come to explain as “essential” the dismissal of greater than a dozen senior officers on account of these scandals. “All inner points that hinder the State are being eradicated and can proceed to be eradicated. It is truthful, it’s essential for our protection, and it helps our rapprochement with the European establishments,” he acknowledged.
#UPDATE Several senior Ukrainian officers – together with deputy protection minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov – resign because the protection ministry is shaken by a meals procurement scandal and the presidency warns of mounting anti-graft measures pic.twitter.com/0H1xH9ESS2
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Ukraine has been the scene prior to now of quite a few circumstances of corruption and Transparency International positioned it in 2021 in 122nd place out of a complete of 180 in its examine on the notion of corruption. The combat towards these crimes can be one of many key calls for of the European Union within the framework of the method for its doable accession to the bloc, one thing firmly rejected by Russia.