The pursuit of corrupt officials has been led by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau, an investigative agency established in 2015. This week, the bureau announced that a deputy minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development had been detained while allegedly receiving a $400,000 cash bribe. The deputy minister could not be reached for comment.
But Ukraine has a long and entrenched problem with corruption — an issue Zelenskyy vowed to tackle when he ran for office as an anti-establishment upstart.