Ukraine’s president has warned government officials and lawmakers that “personal enrichment” and “betrayal” will not be tolerated, after the arrest of a military recruitment chief on embezzlement charges and an MP accused of collaborating with Russia.
“No one will forgive MPs, judges, ‘military commissars’ or any other officials for putting themselves in opposition to the state,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly TV address on Tuesday. “Any internal betrayal . . . or any personal enrichment . . . triggers fury at the very least.”
His comments came after the arrest on Monday of Yevhen Borysov, head of the military recruitment office in Odesa, by Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and Prosecutor General’s Office. The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption said he had illegally acquired more than $5mn through elaborate business schemes.