Ukraine has a reputation for corruption. This is not unwarranted. There are many ways to frame this issue; one of the weakest is “there’s corruption everywhere,” and while that is true, we can say, for example, that there is corruption in the United States, but that lacks appropriate context. So, it would be more correct to say that there is corruption in the United States and that it is far worse today under US President Donald Trump than it was in the previous administration. The same is true of Ukraine; there is corruption, but it is nothing like it was in previous times.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. There are presently a few corruption scandals in Ukraine. One is linked to the energy sector, and another is linked to the defense sector. Both stink to the high heavens. A former Head of the Presidential Administration, Andriy Yermak, has just been handed a “notice of suspicion” related to the latter, with the preliminary accusation being that he may have been involved with laundering funds that appear to have derived from shenanigans in defense sector funding through a luxury real estate development. The amount in question in the energy sector case is believed to equate to $100 million. The amount involved in the “notice of suspicion” issued to Yermak is around $10 million. (Note, this notice of suspicion is legal jargon for a stage of investigation; it means that the appropriate bodies have investigated the underlying suspicions, and there appears to be a case strong enough for a person to be told they’re now the specific target of further investigation, most likely leading to charges being brought formally.)