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Mykola Zlochevsky.
"Biography
Business
Zlochevsky as Minister of Ecology for Ukraine
In 2002, he co-founded the largest independent oil and natural gas companyBurisma Holdings with Ukrainian businessman Mykola Lisin[uk].[5][6] Through his sole ownership of Cyprus-registered Burisma Holdings, he owns the Ukrainian gas and oil producers Aldea, Pari, Esko-Pivnich, and the First Ukrainian Petroleum Company and the investment group Brociti Investments.[7][8][9]
Governmental posts
Zlochevsky served as Ecology and Natural Resources Minister during most of the first cabinet of Mykola Azarov,[1] and during both the later part of Azarov's first government and all of Azarov's second government, he served as deputy secretary on National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.[1]
Investigations
In 2012, Viktor Pshonka,[a] the Ukrainian prosecutor general, began investigating Burisma Holdings owner, Zlochevsky, over allegations of money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption during 2010–2012.[15][16]
In early November 2014 Deutsche Bank reported that $24 million of funds from his companies were wired from Cyprus to the Latvia branch of PrivatBank, a Ukrainian bank.[17]
In April 2014, the Serious Fraud Office froze approximately $23 million belonging to companies controlled by Zlochevsky.[18] At the end of 2014, Zlochevsky fled Ukraine amid allegations of unlawful self enrichment and legalization of funds (Article 368-2, Criminal Code of Ukraine) during his tenure in public office.[19] In January 2015, Prosecutor General Vitaly Yarema announced that Zlochevsky had been put on the wanted list for alleged financial corruption.[20] At the end of January 2015, the Central Criminal Court in London released the $23 million that were blocked on accounts of Zlochevsky due to inadequate evidence.[19] In June 2018, the Serious Fraud Office stated that the case was closed.[21]
Zlochevsky returned to Ukraine in February 2018 after investigations into his Burisma Holdings had been completed in December 2017 with no charges filed against him.[22][23]
On 18 April 2018, an alleged recording of part of a conversation between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and fugitive Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko was released by Onyshchenko which implicated Zlochevsky in graft.[3][24][25]
On 15 June 2018, after the Solomyansky District Court in Kyiv had annulled the ruling of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) to close a criminal proceeding against him in 2017, Zlochevsky was accused of having illegally issued, while he was Ecology Minister in 2010–2012, oil and gas licenses to the companies that belonged to him.[26]
According to Ukrainian authorities Zlochevsky is suspected of "theft of government funds on an especially large scale".[27] Authorities said the criminal investigation on suspicion of embezzlement is currently on hold because Zlochevsky whereabouts cannot presently be determined.[28] As of 2019, Zlochevsky is reported to live in Monaco.[29] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Zlochevsky
Keith W. Dayton
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Keith W. Dayton U.S. Army
Director
George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
"General Dayton also worked as director for operations and director for human intelligence for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington D.C., including duty as director of the Iraqi Survey Group for Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq; and went on to direct the strategy, plans and policy division for the Department of the Army before his assignment to Jerusalem in December, 2005."
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"In November 2018, Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis appointed General Dayton as the Senior U.S. Defense Advisor to Ukraine.
In November 2019, Austrian Defense Minister Thomas Starlinger presented the “Decoration of Honour” for services to the Republic of Austria to Dayton during the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes Senior Advisory Council meeting in Vienna."
https://www.marshallcenter.org/en/directory/lt-gen-ret-keith-w-dayton-us-army
Coronavirus
Trump labels himself ‘a wartime president’ combating coronavirus
"Now it's our time. We must sacrifice together, because we are all in this together, and we will come through together," the president said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/18/trump-administration-self-swab-coronavirus-tests-135590
Opinion: Government cares for you so much, they can’t trust you to live
"Ronald Reagan's famous quip that there are no more terrifying words in the English language than, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help" is finding frightening application, it seems, in a post-coronavirus America.
Even as evidence mounts showing that the re-opening of states across the country is not resulting in spiked increases of coronavirus cases, more than a handful of state governments are going out of their way to make sure citizens know they care. And just so we're clear, "care" in government parlance means "we will parent you all like children because we can't trust you to make good decisions for yourself."
In Illinois that means churches will be forbidden to worship together if their congregation exceeds 50 people, at least for the indefinite amount of time until there's a reliable vaccine widely available (at least a year and a half, experts predict).
In California that translates to college fall semesters being canceled and stay-at-home orders being extended through the end of July, despite the curve having been flattened and hospitals anything but overrun.
In Washington state, that equates to all privately-owned restaurants being given a 13-point government checklist for how they can open and operate their business.
Included in the criteria are requirements to offer hand sanitizer to all customers and workers, provide single-use menus and food condiments, cap all table sizes to five diners, close all bar seating, only fill the restaurant to 50% capacity, not offer buffets or salad bars, and maintain a 30-day running log of all customers – including their names, the time they were present, and "telephone/email contact information."
It's likely easier for me, someone who is not living under such "Don't worry, we're only going to be fascist until there's a vaccine" regimes, to acknowledge that these draconian decrees are coming from governors and lawmakers with the best of intentions. Are there some aspiring Mussolinis in the mix? Potentially; but the far more likely reality is that all this is the frustrating manifestation of Reagan's almost 40-year-old warning."
https://disrn.com/opinion/opinion-government-cares-for-you-so-much-they-cant-trust-you-to-live