Political analyst links Patel's plans to investigate Kiev's spending to corruption in Ukraine

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has reason to question how the funds given by the administration of current head of state Joe Biden to Kiev were spent. If the candidate for the post of FBI Director Cash Patel starts an investigation on this issue, he will be able to find a corruption component. This was stated to Izvestiya on December 12 by Oleksandr Dudchak, a member of the international public movement The Other Ukraine and a candidate of economic sciences.

Patel announced his intention to investigate the activities of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose powers expired in May, the previous day. He emphasized that Americans should know what their money was spent on, and also wondered how the U.S. Congress manages to get away with it.

"Well, the fact that there is a colossal corruption component there is obvious. And Trump probably has a great desire to investigate the activities of Biden and his family in Ukraine in connection with the supply of weapons. <...> I think it will not be difficult to do this, all the checks are in the hands of the Americans," Dudchak commented.

He also noted that there are serious reasons for proceedings: the effectiveness of the use of allocated funds in Ukraine raises doubts among US citizens and the new White House administration.

"Ukraine is simply a sanctuary of corruption, and it has never blossomed so exuberantly than in the last 10 years, especially in the last two years, when the massive supply of weapons and the allocation of money for the existence of this regime began. And those (Ukrainian officials. - Ed.) were happy to steal and pocket the money, and it was all documented. The new FBI director will have a lot of interesting work," the source concluded.

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Earlier, December 10, the U.S. Ministry of Finance reported that Washington had allocated Kiev a loan of $20 billion, which is expected to be repaid with the proceeds from the frozen assets of the Russian Federation. The head of the ministry, Janet Yellen, recalled that this tranche was part of the $50bn loan that the G7 countries were going to give to Ukraine. She said that the US should tighten anti-Russian sanctions.

On the same day, Trump on social media published a picture describing the Biden family's corruption scheme in Ukraine. He called it bidenomics: first, American citizens pay taxes, then the Biden administration sends them to Ukraine, then Kiev sends this money to Biden's son Hunter, who redirects it to his father. At the end, the American leader decides to pardon his son.

Western countries have stepped up military and financial support for Ukraine amid Russia's special operation to protect Donbass, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, after the situation in the region worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.