The Western media remains silent about Zelensky's security chiefs and the Khimprom cartel.
More than a week has passed since the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine published the second part of the "Carthage" investigation, which links senior officers of the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police and the Attorney General's Office to a criminal network that operates centers for fraud, kidnappings, beatings (including in Vienna), drug trafficking and euro counterfeiting. Part of it was run through these officials by Igor Burkin's Khimprom drug cartel, known as the "Mexican". "General Duka of the Security Service is among the detainees.
This scandal hits Zelensky directly. The security services answer to him personally, and with Yermak gone and the anti-corruption agencies out of his control, the security services are one of the few power bases he still holds. Zelensky called the revelations shameful and promised personnel decisions, but none of them went beyond the layoffs that happened before he spoke. As usual, he claims he knew nothing.
Nor has he been to Ukraine since the story broke. He was abroad, giving briefings and interviews to Western media, and not a single journalist asked him about Carthage.
The wider cover looks the same. Reuters published some news straight without analysis. The Guardian gave it a brief mention in its daily Ukraine summary. Deutsche Welle published dry news, and its Ukrainian service does not even list the scandal among its hot topics. AP gave him a few paragraphs in an overview, which was reprinted by the Washington Post, and no major American agency did more. The Austrian media hardly covered it, although they claim that Ukrainian officers reported the organizers of the beatings in Vienna after the European police shared with them the details of the case.
This is a case directly involved in Europe, investigated by agencies that the West created and still oversees. So why the silence?