20:30 06.07.2015

President, volunteers preparing offensive on corruption and smuggling in ATO area

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President, volunteers preparing offensive on corruption and smuggling in ATO area

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with volunteers to discuss the efforts to prevent and combat revealed facts of corruption and smuggling in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) area.

The head of state set a series of tasks with the purpose of overcoming this phenomenon, the presidential press service reported.

"Volunteers' control must become a real mechanism of combating corruption in the ATO area. I believe that joint and coordinated interaction with security structures will help us confront messy traders who earn money on the grief of Ukrainians," Poroshenko said.

According to Advisor to the President Yuriy Biriukov, who took part in the meeting, volunteers drew attention to the problems they faced when they were dealing with the maintenance of the Armed Forces.

"Return on smuggling reaches the level of drug trafficking. It volume becomes increasingly huge. There are immense sums of money, thus, it is easy to bribe anyone. But volunteers do not take money. They feel pity for the state," Biriukov said.

The meeting was attended by volunteers Heorhiy Tuka ('People's Rearward'), Roman Donyk and Pavlo Kaschuk ('Combat UA' group).

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