According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky embezzled $400 million ultimate yr that the US had allotted Ukraine for the acquisition of fuel. Hersh claimed that Zelensky has made tens of thousands and thousands by searching for cheaper Russian fuel instead of shopping for from approved sources.
He wrote, “The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there,” on his website online.
He claimed that instead of shopping for fuel by means of the Pakistani port, the Ukrainian president has been shopping for fuel from Russia, a country with which every Ukraine and the United States are at battle and that the latter and fairly just a few members of his entourage had been syphoning off huge sums from the American {{dollars}} put apart for funds for diesel fuel. By shopping for cheaper Russian oil, Zelensky and his associates are pocketing the soundness amount acquired from the USA, in accordance with Seymour Hersh.
“One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kyiv (or Kiev, Ukraine’s capital) as approaching that of the Afghan war, although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from Ukraine,” he revealed.
He claimed to have acquired data from an educated American intelligence official who acknowledged, “Zelensky’s been buying discount diesel from the Russians. And who’s paying for the gas and oil? We are. Putin and his oligarchs are making millions on it.”
He was educated that many authorities companies in Kyiv had been competing to establish entrance corporations for export gives for weapons and ammunition with neutral arms sellers the world over, all of whom supplied kickbacks. Many of those corporations are positioned in Poland and the Czech Republic, whereas some can be current in Israel and the Persian Gulf.
An American expert on worldwide commerce disclosed to him, “I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are others in places like the Cayman Islands and Panama, and there are lots of Americans involved.”
During a gathering with CIA Director William Burns in January in Kyiv, the topic of corruption was significantly launched up with the Ukrainian President. An intelligence official with firsthand info of the encounter educated the journalist that his message to Volodymyr Zelensky was straight out of a Fifties gangster film.
“The senior generals and government officials in Kyiv were angry at what they saw as Zelensky’s greed, so Burns told the Ukrainian president, because he was taking a larger share of the skim money than was going to the generals.” he unveiled.
“Burns also presented Zelensky with a list of thirty-five generals and senior officials whose corruption was known to the CIA and others in the American government. Zelensky responded to the American pressure ten days later by publicly dismissing ten of the most ostentatious officials on the list and doing little else,” he added.
The ten people he fired have been boasting overtly about their wealth and cruising about Kyiv of their new Mercedes, the intelligence official divulged to Seymour Hersh.