Interpol puts ex-Ukraine president Yanukovych on wanted list

[tabasco]

Source: Washington Post

MOSCOW — The international police agency Interpol has issued a wanted notice for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on charges of embezzlement.

The so-called “red notice” issued Monday is not an arrest warrant, but aimed at helping national police agencies of member countries identify suspects.

Yanukovych abandoned his post and fled to Russia last February in the wake of protests that had lasted for three months and turned increasingly violent. He later surfaced in Russia.

Ukrainian authorities allege Yanukovych and his circle were extensively corrupt, amassing great wealth at the expense of the country.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/interpol-puts-ex-ukraine-president-yanukovych-on-wanted-list/2015/01/12/968855de-9a77-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html

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"Later surfaced in Russia."

Surprise, surprise.

[uhnope]

1. Yanukovych started as a village thug and ended buying a $52 million palace in Russia

"embezzlement"? How about "plundering"

[Turbineguy]

3. They can't use the word "looting"

only the poor do that.

[ColesCountyDem]

2. Ukraine's equivalent of Anastasio Somoza, of Niucaragua. n/t

[happyslug]

4. I see him as another William Flinn of the McGee-Flinn gang that ran Pittsburgh in the late 1800s

Yes it is a little obscure today, but it is the best way to see how Yanukovych and Putin are different, yet they did work together for a while. Here is Lincoln Steffens report on that ring, for it is a great study of two politicians who worked together but they method of working were so different that on the surface appear incompatible: Steffens's "Pittsburg, a City Ashamed":

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012104587;view=1up;seq=38

Flinn was the muscle, McGee the Brains and they worked well together in forming one of the strongest political machines any City ever had. McGee would spend money to gain power, Flinn was noted to use power to get money. Notice the difference, Yanukovych is much like Flinn, wanted power to get wealth. Putin is more like McGee, wants wealth to get power. Steffens makes the comment that McGee could do without Flinn, Flinn could NOT do without McGee.