I was surprised to see a story yesterday in the Wall Street Journal about the FBI investigation of corruption in the Ukraine. I was thinking the FBI had enough work for it here in the United States without devoting resources to corruption in another country, especially if it does not involve any actions by a Ukrainian against officials or business interests of the USA. Bizarre.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has signed a memorandum of understanding that says, according to their website,
“At the meeting with the FBI colleagues, the NABU Director pointed out that he sees three possible ways the FBI can support the Bureau, namely the possibility of receiving the operative information on USD flows distribution , experience sharing on the operative and technical work and the work of undercover specialists, possibility of providing the NABU divisions with material and technical support.
This is the usual vagueness of international memos, which try hard to not be too specific to keep opposition parties from saying the agreement was being violated by doing thus and so.
I think Congress needs to ask the FBI if the Ukraine is incapable of doing their own Internal investigations and why resources are being plowed into this internal political matter. This is not something we need to be involved in.
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