Ukraine Conflict Flares as Government Fights ‘Oligarch’ Crisis - Bloomberg Business
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Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said his government would crack down on “total corruption and smuggling,” and the cabinet gave private security services 24 hours to disarm after a group of men seized state-controlled oil company Ukrnafta.
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Ukraine’s government also vowed to tackle domestic dissent. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced tighter gun-control measures and referred specifically to Dnipropetrovsk Governor Igor Kolomoisky, who has served as a board member at Ukrnafta, Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov, second-wealthiest Viktor Pinchuk, and other tycoons.
“A scenario of oligarch-supported political crisis will not pass,” Yatsenyuk, who dismissed the first deputy head of the fiscal service in charge of the tax police and the deputy head of the customs service on Monday, said during a government meeting. “We will not let anyone rob the country , which is at war.”
State Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaychenko said on Monday that Dnipropetrovsk regional government officials are financing armed gangs and threatening investigators.
Following his comments, four lawmakers in President Petro Poroshenko’s party left the parliamentary faction, saying that discrediting the regional administration was a violation of the ruling coalition pact, news service Interfax reported.
