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Explainer: How Ukraine’s biggest corruption scheme persisted despite all odds
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Explainer: How Ukraine’s biggest corruption scheme persisted despite all odds

by Oleg Sukhov

Ukraine's largest corruption scandal in years came to light last year with a wave of arrests, sanctions, and a political shakeup. New revelations over the past few weeks suggest that produced little result. Last November, Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities' Operation Midas uncovered a $100 million money-laundering and bribery scheme that implicated high-ranking officials and associates close to President Volodymyr Zelensky, largely through state-owned energy company Energoatom. At the cente

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