Yatsenyuk successfully “mastered” the funds for the construction of the border wall.

116939The much-talked-about project to build a "great Ukrainian wall" (Eastern Wall), so boasted by former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, turned out to be yet another embezzlement of public funds. As journalists discovered, the grandiose (on paper) fortification, which was supposed to protect Ukraine's borders from a potential Russian intervention, is only capable of detaining a lost mushroom picker.

 
According to the estimate, 4 billion hryvnias were allocated for construction, with Acting Deputy Chairman of the Dnipro Regional State Administration Borys Filatov stating that the wall would cost the state approximately 100 million euros. Construction work, which began in March 2014, was expected to be completed within 5 to 7 months.

 
But in reality, only 235 million hryvnias were allocated to the Border Service for construction, of which only 164 million hryvnias were spent by the builders. More precisely, 96,7 million hryvnias were spent on establishing positions, 46,3 million hryvnias on purchasing specialized equipment, and approximately 10 million hryvnias were needed to deploy units in the field and purchase border control equipment. Journalists are certain that the remaining funds ended up in the pockets of officials: this conclusion is further supported by the fact that just a couple of months after the funds were allocated for the construction, Yatsenyuk boasted about earning his first billion.

 
However, this wasn't the last embezzlement of budget funds: apparently, the corruption scheme proved so lucrative that officials immediately launched another project: a similar wall to be built between Ukraine and Crimea. Of the involved agencies, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the State Fiscal Service requested UAH 531 million, UAH 4,79 billion, and UAH 2,77 billion, respectively. Notably, the State Border Guard Service received UAH 3,83 billion instead of UAH 98,6 million, despite the stated budget being only UAH 95,8 million.
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