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Various raids on public bodies in Ukraine in the framework of the fight against corruption

MADRID, 1 Feb.

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Various raids on public bodies in Ukraine in the framework of the fight against corruption

MADRID, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ukrainian authorities have carried out a series of raids on public bodies on Wednesday as part of a campaign against corruption in the European country, while they have proceeded to dismiss the entire leadership in charge of Customs, according to has confirmed David Arakhamia, leader of the parliamentary bloc of the party of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky.

The leader of the Servant of the People block has stated through his Telegram account that Ukrainian agents have carried out raids on the Treasury and other offices in Avakov and Stolar, while reports have been delivered on "suspicions" of corruption by of "senior officials" of the Ministry of Defence.

"The country will change during the war. If someone is not willing to change, the State will help them change," he stressed, after Zelenski fired dozens of people at the end of January -- including governors, deputy ministers and his deputy adviser -- after several scandals within the Ministry of Defense and the arrest of a deputy minister for allegedly taking bribes.

The raid on the Treasury headquarters in the capital, kyiv, has been carried out due to suspicions against its director for alleged "abuse of power" regarding decision-making, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.

Likewise, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has carried out a raid on the home of the oligarch Igor Kolomoiski in the city of Dnipro, without further details having been released for now, while local media report suspicions surrounding the former minister. of Energy Igor Nasalik for alleged corrupt acts.

Zelensky defended his decision to dismiss more than a dozen high-ranking officials for these scandals and stressed that "all internal issues that hinder the State are being eliminated and will continue to be eliminated." "It's fair, it's necessary for our defense, and it helps our rapprochement with the European institutions," he said.

Ukraine has been the scene in the past of numerous cases of corruption and Transparency International placed it in 2021 in 122nd place out of a total of 180 in its study on the perception of corruption. The fight against these crimes is also one of the key demands of the European Union (EU) in the framework of the process for its possible accession to the bloc, something firmly rejected by Russia.