Ukraine Ruled By "Wartime Mafia Network" With "Countless Ties" To Zelensky: Viktor Orban
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Nov 14, 2025 - 03:50 AM
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is having a "told you so" moment as Ukraine's massive corruption scandal which has already taken down the country's Justice Minister and several other high officials has come to light. The crisis has entered Ukraine's presidential office, with at least one close Zelensky business associate, Tymur Mindich, having fled the country already, just as the major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state-owned nuclear power company was made public.
Orban commented on X in a scathing denunciation of Zelensky's rule that Ukraine has been taken over by a "wartime mafia network" and that "the golden illusion" of an underdog nation heroically resisting the Russians is "falling apart". The crisis centers ironically on Ukraine's state-run energy sector at a moment common Ukrainians are suffering amid rolling blackouts and relentless Russian aerial attacks on the power grid.
"A wartime mafia network with countless ties to President Volodymyr Zelensky has been exposed," stated the Hungarian leader. "The energy minister has already resigned, and the main suspect has fled the country."
He then unleashed on those Eurocrats who've long wagged their finger at Hungary for not stepping up to do more in funding Ukraine. This has simultaneously included years of immense pressure from Western Europe for Hungary to sever its energy dependency on Russian imports, which Orban has at various times warned would sink the economy if done drastically.
Orban in the Thursday X statement blasted this "Madness":
"This is the chaos into which the Brusselian elite want to pour European taxpayers’ money, where whatever isn’t shot off on the front lines ends up in the pockets of the war mafia. Madness."
"Thank you, but we want no part of this," he continued sarcastically. "We will not send the Hungarian people’s money to Ukraine. It can be put to far better use at home: this week alone we doubled foster parents’ allowances and approved the 14th month’s pension."
And again, alluding to the ongoing scandal, "Anyhow, after all this, we certainly won't give in to the Ukrainian president’s financial demands and blackmail. It's high time Brussels finally understood where their money is really going," Orban wrote.
Hungary has clashed with Kiev time and again over the years, with at times other European allies stepping in to seek to mediate the delicate relationship. EU leadership has also constantly chastised Orban in particular for thwarting and sabotaging European unity when it comes to collective efforts to support Ukraine and punish Russia.
He then unleashed on those Eurocrats who've long wagged their finger at Hungary for not stepping up to do more in funding Ukraine. This has simultaneously included years of immense pressure from Western Europe for Hungary to sever its energy dependency on Russian imports, which Orban has at various times warned would sink the economy if done drastically.
Orban in the Thursday X statement blasted this "Madness":
"This is the chaos into which the Brusselian elite want to pour European taxpayers’ money, where whatever isn’t shot off on the front lines ends up in the pockets of the war mafia. Madness."
"Thank you, but we want no part of this," he continued sarcastically. "We will not send the Hungarian people’s money to Ukraine. It can be put to far better use at home: this week alone we doubled foster parents’ allowances and approved the 14th month’s pension."
And again, alluding to the ongoing scandal, "Anyhow, after all this, we certainly won't give in to the Ukrainian president’s financial demands and blackmail. It's high time Brussels finally understood where their money is really going," Orban wrote.
Hungary has clashed with Kiev time and again over the years, with at times other European allies stepping in to seek to mediate the delicate relationship. EU leadership has also constantly chastised Orban in particular for thwarting and sabotaging European unity when it comes to collective efforts to support Ukraine and punish Russia.
In times of war opportunists make money.......there were more than a dozen people arrested in total....
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/russian-corruption-purge-expands-as-two-more-defence-officials-arrested
Russian corruption purge expands as two more defence officials arrested.
Confessing to taking bribes, the duo are the latest to be arrested in a ‘purge’ by the Defence Ministry
Published On 16 Sep 2024
Russia has charged two military officials with taking bribes, the latest in a string of arrests linked to alleged corruption in the Ministry of Defence.
The Investigative Committee announced on Monday that the pair had confessed to accepting bribes equivalent to $120,000 over the past three years. Amid the military offensive in Ukraine, since April, Moscow has arrested at least a dozen military officials on corruption charges in what has been termed a purge by analysts.
Ivan Populovsky, the head of a military representative’s office, and his subordinate, Grigory Zorin, are the latest officials to be arrested. Investigators alleged that the pair took bribes from two companies that supplied electrical goods and cables to the ministry.
In return, the men were expected to weaken oversight and give “other privileges and preferences” to the companies when carrying out state contracts.
“During the investigation, the defendants pleaded guilty,” investigators said, adding that their involvement in other similar crimes “is being looked into”.
The Defence Ministry has been facing corruption allegations since the Soviet era. But the problem came under intense scrutiny following the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
Last week, four Russian officials, including one who worked at the ministry, were arrested in separate corruption cases.
Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, a close associate of former Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, is the highest-ranking casualty of the purge thus far, having been arrested on bribery charges in April.
Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, deputy head of the army’s general staff, was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes in May.
The same month, President Vladimir Putin removed the long-serving Shoigu.
He was replaced by economist Andrei Belousov in what was widely seen as a move to ensure tighter management of the country’s vast defence budget.
Shoigu has been widely blamed for Russia’s failure to capture Kyiv. He was also accused of incompetence and corruption by Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group, who died in a plane crash last year following a failed revolt.
All of those under investigation served under Shoigu, who now serves as secretary of Putin’s Security Council.
you should have obtained a source dating back to 1913, during Tsarist times when corruption was rife
DeleteNo need that far back.
DeleteJust check all those misappropriation of military funds in the US.
That how these mfers work on their selectivity. Knowing very well that human greeds breed corruption irrespective of any idealogies invented by human.
Ah Mok gotta be blind ignoring Russia as one of the most corrupt States in the world while getting outraged about Ukraine.
Deletemfer, cf:
Delete1) Nancy Pelosi's Midas touches on share investments
2) Trump family's cryptocurrency winfalls
Not even the most corrupted entities could be on par with these operations!
Don't get me started about all the Rich and Red children of CCP multi-generations.
DeleteI'm sure all offspring of CCP leaders are Financial geniuses, thats why they re all Filthy Rich.
Victor Orban getting outraged about corruption... wakakak.....like Najib teaching a class about ethics and law compliance....
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