How Ukrainian mayor of Mykolaiv plans to curb corruption as foreign aid flows in for reconstruction

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Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych orders officials to stay away from recovery funds as the port city on the Black Sea begins to rebuild

, officers arrested the country’s deputy infrastructure minister, Vasyl Lozinskyi, for allegedly stealing US$400,000 that was earmarked for humanitarian aid.

Mr. Senkevych defended Mr. Korenev, who is still on city council, and said the case was politically motivated by his opponents. “They don’t have any information about corruption connections, or bribing, or asking for money,” he said. “That was my biggest project before the election, so that’s why they started it, just to make it look dirty.”

The European Union Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine has been working with Mr. Senkevych and the city council to improve project management. “Mykolaiv is not a city that had experience in receiving international aid,” said Allan Pagh Kristensen, who heads the initiative. “The task is enormous. And of course the risks of things that can go wrong, they are there, including when it comes to corruption.

For example, the Danish government has provided more than $7-million for new water pipes and pumps. Mr. Kristensen said the water agency needed processes in place to “close the gaps that there might be for corruption.”There are also plans for the city to use a geographic information system to map the location of damaged buildings and monitor their repair and reconstruction.

 

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