During a meeting of Ukraine’s cabinet Wednesday, the head of the country’s Emergency Situations Service and his deputy were handcuffed and led away in front of television cameras as a demonstration of the government’s seriousness about rooting out corruption. While a crackdown is sorely needed in Ukraine, the size of a country’s shadow economy depends less on such theatrics than on economic performance.
The Emergency Situations Service officials in Ukraine, Sergiy Bochkovsky and Vasyl Stoietsky, are accused of accepting kickbacks when purchasing equipment for their service. Although Ukraine has passed laws to make government procurement more transparent, the Interior Ministry …read more
Source: National Post
