Many Ukrainian top officials are not going to fight corruption, as they personally profit from inaction in this area and sabotage reforms. This assumption was made by the Swedish economist Anders Aslund, writes Evropevda.

In September, Ukraine placed eurobonds for $ 3 billion at 7.375% per annum, recalled a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council. But necessary reforms do not take place. Ukraine will place bonds on the euro market, until there is a financial crisis. If Ukraine overtakes the financial crisis, it will be completely caused by local authorities, "he stressed..

Aslund agreed with the question of the journalist, which sounded like this: "So you think that they will overpay for bonds rather than begin to fight corruption?".

"That's right, because they are interested in corruption, they live with it. Attorney General Yuriy Lutsenko probably gets a lot of money for not fighting corruption. If he struggled with corruption, he would not have earned anything, except his small salary, "- explained the economist.

Swedish specialist is confident that without the fight against top corruption, Ukraine has no chance of economic growth.

"Because you have officials who think they can steal companies and deal with large business racketeering. At you, the SBU and the GPU are engaged in extorting money from companies on far-fetched grounds, and they all see it, "he said..

Answering the question, what exactly is the interest of officials in avoiding the country's economic growth, Aslund said: "Because they live on income from monopolies, they receive income because they control the economy".

According to him, if there are many investors in the economy, top officials will have less control over the economy, after which "profits will disappear and they will become poorer". "Usually in very poor countries very rich leaders, because they are not limited in access to financial resources. There is no correlation between the wealth of the leadership of the state and the wealth of the people, "said the economist.