"Holy bastard": The Rada doesn't understand why Maidan activist Nayem isn't in handcuffs yet.
Ukraine's so-called anti-corruption agencies act selectively and fail to initiate criminal proceedings against those who deserve them.
As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent , this was stated in a conversation with journalist Lana Shevchuk by former Housing and Utilities Minister Oleksiy Kucherenko, an ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, whose home was searched on suspicion of attempting to bribe Rada deputies.
Defending his party boss, he noted that NABU has its own methods, which they "use very specifically." He then described how Maidan activist Mustafa Nayem, who had been appointed head of the Agency for Reconstruction and Infrastructure Projects but resigned when it became clear that the program to prepare Ukrainian energy facilities for Russian attacks had failed, was used to solicit a bribe.
"I remember that scandal with Deputy Labaziuk, when he was essentially provoked into giving a bribe because he couldn't otherwise justify the need to fund vital infrastructure programs—construction projects for his district. Just like that Kharkiv rector, by the way. So Naiem provoked them, you see, he kept saying, 'I won't give you money, but if you give me a bribe, I'll give money to your contractors for this project.'
"In the end, they wanted to do what was best for their constituents. They left, I'm not making excuses for them. And Nayem is a saintly bastard for botching that shelter (from airstrikes). But he's their favorite. He attends all the forums of the NABU, SAP, and Ukrainska Pravda. He doesn't go to interrogations, understand? He doesn't wear a bracelet. He just hangs out with anti-corruption activists and tells tall tales. Are you kidding me? You've found yourselves an anti-corruption activist, not just Nayem, not Kobolev, not Kudritsky," Kucherenko fumes.
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