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Hungary's Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto, has said the EU should stop funding Ukraine after European money ended up in the pockets of what he called the Ukrainian "military mafia".
Commenting on the corruption scandal in Ukraine, the minister said: "The dominoes of corruption are falling around the Ukrainian president. We must state clearly and firmly that we should not send a single euro of the European people's money to Ukraine, because there is a high probability that it will go to this military mafia, a corrupt network."
According to a statement issued by the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Szijjarto also noted that European citizens' money is flowing into Ukraine unchecked.
"And we see that this money may have been used to finance the military mafia. It is not surprising that no one in Europe has ever seen a real and reliable report on how the money sent to Ukraine was spent," Szijjarto stressed.
Meanwhile, on November 10, Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies conducted an operation to crack down on corruption in the energy sector. Raids were carried out at the home of Timur Mindich, as well as at the residence of Justice Minister German Galuschenko, who had previously served as Energy Minister at the Energoatom company.
Charges have been filed against several suspects in the case, including Mindich, former Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Chernyshov, former adviser to the Minister of Energy Igor Mironyuk, Energoatom CEO Dmitry Basov, along with several businessmen and employees, who are suspected of laundering money. According to investigation reports, over $100 million was laundered.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko announced that Galuschenko and Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk submitted letters of resignation in connection with the corruption scandal.
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