{"id":574150,"date":"2025-11-16T12:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574150\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:55:23","slug":"what-will-be-the-fallout-from-ukraines-worsening-corruption-scandal-corruption-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574150\/","title":{"rendered":"What will be the fallout from Ukraine\u2019s worsening corruption scandal? | Corruption News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is facing what could be the biggest challenge to his government since the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>He came to power in 2019, promising to tackle state corruption. But he\u2019s found himself this week, uncomfortably close to a $100m corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p>A group of officials, government ministers and businessmen are accused of arranging kickbacks using the state nuclear energy firm. One of them is the co-owner of the television production company founded by Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>So, in a country at war, how will this scandal affect morale? And how is it being received by donors in the EU and elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peter Zalmayev \u2013 Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative<\/p>\n<p>Olena Tregub \u2013 Secretary-general of Ukraine\u2019s Independent Defence Anti-Corruption Commission<\/p>\n<p>Ben Aris \u2013 Political and security analyst for Eastern Europe; chief of Intellinews and a former Moscow bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph<\/p>\n<p>Published On 16 Nov 202516 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is facing what could be the biggest challenge to his government since the Russian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2575,2000,299,1234,12,285,10471,10472,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-574150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-corruption","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-show-types","15":"tag-tv-shows","16":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115559486251507636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}