Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says all 29 member countries would respond to a serious cyber-attack on one of them. Writing in Prospect Magazine, he said such an incident would trigger a “collective defence commitment”, known as Article 5 of its founding treaty. Article 5 has not been triggered since the 9/11 terror attacks on […]

   The BBC published the results of its long awaited investigation into London property holdings of a prominent Odessa based Ukrainian mafia clan. The article boils down the results of the BBC’s investigative television shown on its “Panorama,” programme in April 2018  Click here to read the article     The bombshell investigation alleges that members of the […]

Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was indicted on Monday with his longtime associate, Rick Gates, on charges of money laundering and making false statements to officials related to lobbying work in Ukraine. The two men, who pleaded not guilty, are charged with setting up offshore bank accounts and making wire transfers from them to directly […]

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau said that millions of dollars in proceeds from domestic corruption had been found in 41 countries, the Kyiv Post reported Tuesday. http://bit.ly/2oOW5aB In a video on Facebook, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau- Businesses in at least 10 countries have helped funnel the illegal money out of Ukraine, the bureau said in an […]

Fast cars and fancy watches. Faberge eggs and vintage wine. Prime real estate, including a church. Even a ticket to space. Along with many millions in cold, hard cash, they’re just some of the items emerging from the latest effort to root out persistent corruption in Ukraine. Officials there had until midnight on October 30 […]

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies have pledged to act swiftly to identify and punish politicians who acted illegally in accumulating the riches revealed under a new law obliging officials and deputies to disclose their wealth. Tens of thousands of officials at all levels had until Sunday to submit a full statement of their earnings and assets, using […]

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies have pledged to act swiftly to identify and punish politicians who acted illegally in accumulating the riches revealed under a new law obliging officials and deputies to disclose their wealth. Tens of thousands of officials at all levels had until Sunday to submit a full statement of their earnings and assets, using […]

The EU has recently announced an extension of its sanctions imposed in response to the situation in Ukraine.  EU leaders had previously confirmed that the duration of sanctions affecting Russia would be linked to the implementation of the Minsk Agreements, currently foreseen to be completed by 31 December 2015.  The EU has therefore taken steps […]