Ukraine anti-oligarch law running into trouble

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 21 Oct 2021 by Alex Teddy
On October 15 the head of the National Security and Defense Council told the press that 108 innocent people were on the sanctions list designed to hurt so-called "thieves in law". There are over 500 people on the list, and 400 of them remain on it. It was announced that 8 people who wrote the list have been fired or demoted. It is suspected that they knowingly included innocent people on the list. The Interior Ministry was behind the list, and the Interior Minister at the time, Arsen Avakov, was fired in July 2021 but over unrelated issues.Zelensky unveiled sanctions against ''thieves in law'' in May 2021. This froze their assets and banned them from entry. However, 100 innocent people were placed on the list along with genuine malefactors. The government is investigating whether the inclusion of innocent persons on the list was intentional. People are on the list for being suspected mafiosi. The Golos Party said that documents were fabricated so that innocent people were sanctioned.This is an embarrassing episode. Ukraine is desperate to prove that it is clean. The EU and the USA have disbursed huge sums to Ukraine in grants and soft loans for 30 years. Peculation by officials, politicians and gangsters meant that little of the money percolated down to help ordinary people. Ukraine wants to join the EU. There is no chance of that until it detoxifies its reputation.

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