Most Ukrainians are inured to stories of corruption, but a month before the country’s presidential election, a scandal has sparked outrage among even the most jaded. The son of a close business partner of President Petro Poroshenko is accused of selling smuggled Russian components to Ukrainian defense factories at wildly inflated prices.
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Leonid Bershidsky: This graft scandal may be too much even for Ukraine
Then-Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council OlehHladkovsky sits at the council's meeting in Kyiv on Feb. 18, 2015.
