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The Accounting Chamber of Ukraine has carried out an audit and issued a damning report on the system by which law enforcement bodies are spending charitable aid. It says that this is uncontrolled and largely unlawful. Charitable donations received by the MIA, the State Department for the Execution of Sentences, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the SBU [Security Service] have used this money extremely ineffectively, with numerous infringements of financial discipline and current legislation." Read the story here.