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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

AT WHOM IS THE PRESIDENT THROWING STONES?

24 February, 1998 - 00:00

As President Kuchma noted at a session of the Coordination Council for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime, «the commercial structures, which supply and sell oil and gas in Ukraine, are rapidly becoming criminalized,» reports Interfax-Ukraine. The President called what was done in the sphere in the cabinet not long ago «a crime against the people and state,» leaving Ukraine burdened with huge foreign and domestic debts. He added that «hundreds of millions of stolen dollars are now being thrown into the election campaign by people, who want to put the whole country in their pocket.» The President also stated that today one can speak of the formation of a «criminalized economic elite using all its resources in its quest for power.» Criminality is using political parties to legalize itself and there is «a danger of some political parties turning into politicized criminal packs.»

 

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