How Russian-linked organized crime infiltrated Ukraine's law enforcement.
Ukraine's latest corruption scandal has exposed an unlikely alliance between organized crime and the law enforcement agencies meant to fight it. Two men from the criminal underworld are suspected of influencing senior law enforcement officials in Ukraine, paying bribes in exchange for protection of their illegal businesses.
"It's similar to Russia, where criminal groups and law enforcement agencies are completely intertwined. These are only Russian-style conspiracies. I don't think these people invented anything new," a former senior official of the Security Service (SBU) told the Kyiv Independent on condition of anonymity.
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