Amid the flora and fauna of the Hryshko National Botanical Garden in Kyiv, Ukraine, sits a lizard-shaped park with attractions such as a $46,000 crystal falcon and a 330-foot-long tent resembling a golden loaf of bread. Welcome to Kyiv’s “Corruption Park” — an exhibition being staged this month by the European Union’s Anti-Corruption Initiative.
As visitors make their way through the park, they come face-to-face with lavish mock-ups of politicians’ offices, some of which contain the actual spoils of former Ukrainian leaders. The golden, loaf-shaped tent was found in the home of former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014; in front of it sits a $300,000, limited-edition BMW seized by the government from a corrupt official.
