In 2014, Western countries made Ukrainians a promise. They pledged to recover money stolen by the country’s deposed president and his cronies, and to return it. Ukraine was in desperate need of funds, as it sought to repel a Russian invasion, to maintain basic services, to pay its foreign debt, and to end once and for all its crippling epidemic of corruption. Two years on, it’s time to ask how that is going. Bloody Money tells two stories. One is of a Ukrainian oligarch’s bank account and the $23 million it contained. In unprecedented detail, it reveals …read more
Source: VICE News
