Brian Mefford: Ukraine’s J. Edgar Hoover?
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (L) shakes hands with the new head of the national Anti-Corruption Bureau Artem Sytnyk minutes after Sytnyk's appointment.
Last Thursday, President Poroshenko picked little known lawyer Artem Sytnyk as the Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. Sytnyk, age 35, hails from Kirovohrad region and began his career in that region's Prosecutor's Office. In 2008 he was promoted to the post of Investigation Chief for Kyiv oblast's Prosecutor's Office. A year after Yanukovych was elected President, Sytnyk quit his post because of his "disagreement with the policy of Yanukovych’s regime, the criminalization of law enforcement bodies, the dismantling of the fight against corruption, and the absolute lack of professionalism and regime-engagement of the then Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor".
