After we wrote in our article on Oct. 26 of this year about Ukrainian corruption, titled “Corruption problem in Ukraine cuts far deeper than many know,” we received a response from the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine, Anatoly Matios. In the lengthy document, of which there was obviously a lot of time spent, he refuted the allegations against him in the Ukrainian press — that he was an instrument of the Yanukovych regime, that his wife has been banking funds stolen through his corrupt practices in office, that he refused to investigate the death of the American volunteer Mark Paslavsky, and that the prosecution of tax official Stanislav Denisyuk was a cover for a $2 million extortion attempt from Denisyuk’s family.
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Anatoliy Matios, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine - Chief Military Prosecutor, speaks during a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center on Feb. 18, 2016.
