State of corruption: Zelensky’s circle and billions in graft

The Timur Mindich corruption saga is the nightmare Vladimir Zelensky can’t seem to wake up from. Wrapped up in a $100 million embezzlement scheme, Zelensky’s former finance-man keeps making headlines with connections to new and more complex graft plots, but his story is just the tip of the iceberg. Former head of Zelensky’s office, Andrey Yermak, has become the latest to fall to the scandal – his home raided by Ukraine’s anti-corruption watchdog NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, and the man himself charged in a laundering scheme of about $10 million. Defense money pocketed, no-bid contracts, fugitive oligarchs, and anti-corruption agencies weaponized in political turf wars: every story further implicates Zelensky and his inner circle – and draws more unwanted attention from their Western sponsors. RT’s ‘State of Corruption’ peels back the layers of bribery, fraud, and theft holding Zelensky’s Ukraine together, revealing a state where everyone’s on the make, and everyone has their price.