Anders Aslund is with the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He says the amount of money taken is unbelievable.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has mentioned $37 billion as the total amount of loot of the Yanukovych regime. That, of course, includes, also, other members of the regime that are not considered members of the family such as Andrei Khluyev and Borys Kolesnikov. You can look upon the Ukrainian government under former President Yanukovych as an organized crime syndicate. And, a major purpose of the syndicate was to loot as much money as possible from the government.
Ukraines new government is working with the United States, the European Union, and others. It wants to block the use of money and property connected to Mr. Yanukovych and his aides. The hope is that some of what was stolen can be recovered.
Some groups say the West is partly to blame for Ukraines financial losses and must take responsibility for it. Nathaniel Heller works for Global Integrity, an independent, non-profit group.
To ignore the role that financial institutions in the West, that multilateral institutions play, I think, is just seeing the glass not just half full, but sort of seeing only half the glass.
As Ukraine struggles with both economic and political crises, Anders Aslund suggests two ways Western lawmakers can help.
The easy thing is to introduce a law on competitive tenders for public procurement. You need to clean up the gas industry, which has been the main hub of corruption throughout, which means to adjust gas prices at all levels to the market level - or cost of recovery level.
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