Within hours of the video being posted on Instagram over the weekend, the woman’s boyfriend had been suspended from his duties, the statement said, adding that “an official investigation” had been ordered. The Lviv traffic police chief did not respond to a request for comment.
He is now one of around a dozen officials who resigned, were fired, or were put under investigation this week as Ukraine’s government confronts an old enemy: corruption.
Even as he fights against Russia’s invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is eager to show his public — as well as Western governments whose aid his country relies upon — that he is also continuing to wage war on graft in Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt public sector.