The lender will dispatch a team to discuss the terms of a potential new lending program following reports of embezzlement
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to engage with Kiev on corruption, the global lender said on Thursday, as a $100 million graft scandal has rocked Vladimir Zelensky’s government.
On Monday, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) charged seven people including Zelensky’s former longtime business partner Timur Mindich with kickbacks and embezzlement in the Western-funded energy sector.
Mindich, described in local media as Zelensky’s “wallet,” fled Ukraine shortly before authorities searched his apartment…
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