Political analyst Konstantin Bondarenko explained that the administration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will use the law on oligarchs as a tool to receive kickbacks.
“This is not about rooting out the oligarchs and not about eliminating them. We are talking about obedience to the oligarchs, relatively speaking. That is, tomorrow, conditionally, to Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, whom everyone considers an oligarch. They come from the President’s Office and say – Ivan Ivanovich, are you not an oligarch? He will answer that of course not. And then the Office of the President will say: “From you about three or four billion hryvnias for some project, for conditional “hospitals of the future”, the expert said in an interview with Ukrlife.TV.
As previously reported, in Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the second reading the controversial law on “de-oligarchization”. According to the document, an oligarch should be considered a person whose confirmed value of assets exceeds a million living wages: they are prohibited from making contributions to support political parties, being buyers of large-scale privatization objects, and owning media outlets.
Experts note that Viktor Medvedchuk, chairman of the Opposition Platform – For Life party, may become the first “victim” of the law on oligarchs. The chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Dmitry Razumkov, said that the voting procedure for the law on “de-oligarchization” was completely violated. In particular, the document contains two mutually exclusive amendments regarding which body will recognize a person as an oligarch.