Olena Sotnyk: How to finish the revolution in Ukraine

More than three years after the EuroMaidan, Ukraine still hasn’t successfully prosecuted any high-level crooks, and we’ve got plenty here. At Stanford University’s Draper Hills Summer Fellowship this summer, we examined how to catch a “big fish” and looked at a case study in Indonesia, where the country’s anticorruption commission had just begun. Despite being poorly staffed and lacking its own office, it had already successfully conducted investigations, including one that involved a high-ranking official and public procurement expenditures. The big fish had powerful connections and support from the president’s family, but a new anticorruption court that was independent from the general court system helped reel him in.

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