Скачать или смотреть The Flame of Hope: Will Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Court Serve Justice?

The establishment of the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine seems like a long-awaited miracle for the country’s anti-corruption efforts. If successful, it will mark the completion of anti-corruption reforms that started in 2015.

Ukraine’s international partners have been waiting for the country to finally combat high-profile corruption and create a more predictable and transparent environment in the country. People are hoping it will finally bring crooked politicians to justice, while the corrupt politicians are squirming as they try push forward slippery alternatives in order to make the future court uneffective or to escape its firm hand.

Why does grand corruption in Ukraine have a global significance? How can this cycle of impunity be broken and justice be served to the people in power? And why does the world need the International Anti-Corruption court? To find the answers to these and other questions, Hromadske spoke to Mark Wolf, a Senior United States District Judge who assists Ukraine with establishing a national anti-corruption court. Wolf is also the co-founder of the Integrity Initiatives International, an organization which aims to strengthen the enforcement of criminal laws against corrupt leaders.

Grand corruption is not exclusively a domestic problem, he says. Not only does it destabilize the country itself, but it also affects Ukraine’s partners.

“10 times more is lost to corruption in the developing countries than they receive in foreign aid,” Wolf says.

During the 2016 London anti-corruption summit, the then British Prime Minister David Cameron said that “the world has looked away too much.” And called for the countries to increase international attention to combatting grand corruption.

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