corruption

Ukraine's energy and justice ministers have resigned in the wake of a major investigation into corruption in the country's energy sector.

Ukraine's energy and justice ministers offered their resignations on Wednesday, shortly after President Volodymyr Zelensky said both should go over their alleged involvement in a sweeping corruption scandal in the country's energy sector.

A critical obstacle to democratic transition, the author maintains, is the Venezuelan military leadership’s deep entanglement with the Maduro regime through corruption and human rights abuses, making military cooperation with a successor government unlikely.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has been plagued by corruption scandals -- with graft and rule-of-law major vulnerabilities in Kyiv's EU bid.

On Tuesday night, Sylvia Bongo and Noureddin Bongo were found guilty of embezzlement and corruption after a trial that began a day earlier in their absence.