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| FBI Helping Probe Ukraine 'Kleptocracy' |
| 2014-03-11 |
| [An Nahar] U.S. officials including FBI agents are in Kiev helping a Ukrainian-led investigation into corruption under ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, the U.S. ambassador to Kiev said on Monday. "We are doing what we can to unpack the enormous kleptocracy which surrounded the Yanukovych government," Geoffrey Pyatt said at a presser in Kiev. "We have already on the ground here in Ukraine experts from the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury," the ambassador told news hounds. Pyatt also said there were "a variety of other international governments" assisting in the Ukrainian investigation "to uncover the financial crimes that were committed by the previous regime and to see what can be done to recuperate some of those assets." The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... last week froze the assets of Yanukovych, ex-premier Mykola Azarov and 16 former ministers, businessmen and security chiefs -- all on grounds of fraud. Swiss authorities have also ordered a freeze on the assets of both Yanukovych and his multi-millionaire son Oleksandr, as well as 18 other former ministers and officials. Ukraine ranks 144th out of 177 countries on Transparency International's corruption perceptions index. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Yes. Putin did it Russia's still on my 'suspect' list from last year, albeit towards the very bottom. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-03-11 17:43 |
| #7 Bet it's like the IRS. remove the ones who aren't with the cause, somehow over-look on-message corruption. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-03-11 14:34 |
| #6 Excellent idea. Tell Vlad we'll have more flexibility after the mid-term. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-11 11:31 |
| #5 Yeah, how about if Putin sends a few boys from the KGB to investigate kleptocracy in DC? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-03-11 11:29 |
| #4 Procopius2k for 2nd runner up in snark of the day. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-03-11 11:14 |
| #3 FBI Helping Probe Ukraine 'Kleptocracy' cause doing it back home among the domestic variety all too often leads to the White House. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-03-11 08:53 |
| #2 Yes. Putin did it. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-11 06:23 |
| #1 Not to get pushy or disrupt an ongoing investigation, but has anyone at the Bureau turned up anything yet on the murder of the four US persons that took place in Benghazi a while back ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-11 01:13 |