Ukraine, week 11, more truths come out on Zelenskyy's corruption

The best truth? This is a great roundup of Zelenskyy's corruption, including in palm-line tax haven Caribbean islands. It's all in there — Zelenskyy's general corruption, his connection to Ukrainian oligarchs generally worse than Russian ones, the Pandora Papers part and more. The only thing it's missing — and no, that's not totally snark, Blue Anon — is Hunter Biden's laptop. (On that, Bill Barr made the better call, not to investigate that close to the election — than did James Comey on his muddling vis-a-vis Anthony Weiner's laptop, and everything Weiner. That said, Comey was clueless, per James Stewart's new book, but it still doesn't excuse all his bigfooting after AG Loretta Lynch met the Slickster on the Phoenix tarmac.)

And, at some point, are we going to get info that more directly pegs Hunter to Zelenskyy's grifters? And, will the Fraud, not the Squad, push for this?

But, back to that first link.

1. Did you know the International Monetary Fund cut Zelenskyy off from a new round of lending in 2019 because of corruption? (Even the nationalistic Kyiv Post admits that, because it's the source linked for that in the main link!) That said, the IMF's answer was "tie yourself closer to the EU."
2. That Washington turns a harsh, or a blind, eye on corruption depending on connections?
   
3. That Zelenskyy's main oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky of PrivatBank, started his own militia after the Maidan?
4. That, sorry, there IS Hunter Biden, if not his nefarious laptop, in the story, cuz he's connected to Ihor Kolomoisky. 

Here's the bottom line:

The war has completely reinvented Zelensky, thus saving his scandal-plagued presidency marked by broken promises. As a Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll showed, just 24 percent of voters supported him in late January.

Now, we know the IMF doesn't control Putin. So, why DID he invade? Couldn't he have waited to seeif Zelenskyy would implode instead?

If you don't trust the top link because it's not "mainstream media"? OK, The Guardian.  Start here, where, after the Guardian notes he ran for president on an anti-corruption platform, here was the reality:

The Pandora papers, leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and shared with the Guardian as part of a global investigation however, suggest Zelenskiy is rather similar to his predecessors. 

The leaked documents suggest he had – or has – a previously undisclosed stake in an offshore company, which he appears to have secretly transferred to a friend weeks before winning the presidential vote.

Simple enough. For details, here's yet more from the Pandora Papers.

Next, the Guardian notes that Zelenskyy, to look transparent, "declared" a number of previously private assets after being elected. But, he left many undeclared, until the Pandora Papers fixed that.

As for his bigger "clean-up" campaign pledge?

EU auditors warned last month that “grand corruption and state capture” remained widespread in Ukraine.

The Guardian then also notes other details of his ties to Kolomoisky.

Medium poster Scott Dunn, from whom the Guardian link, notes that two diametrically opposed political alignments, the UK's Socialist Workers Party and the Cato Institute here in the US, have both called out Zelenskyy on corruption. Both, and Cato especially, note general political corruption by Zelenskyy, not just financial corruption.

Meanwhile, as of late July, despite attempts to downplay it, and to downplay the concerns of Ukrainian-born Congresscritter Victoria Spartz, Warmonger Joe and the Nat-Sec Nutsacks™ are STILL concerned about Ukrainian corruption, AP reports.