I’m glad BYUT got rid of corrupt Transport Minister Vinsky, says Ivan Denkovych

June18200922:29

Premier Yulia Tymoshenko is cleaning up her cabinet of corruption. I’m glad Transport Minister Vinsky is gone. He was a stain on the cabinet reputation. I cannot even say what he had done to enrich and hype himself, head of Batkivshchyna party Lviv branch and VR lawmaker Ivan Denkovych told journalists in Lviv June 18.

Denkovych told how Vinsky, on resigning from the Socialist party, brought with him two more Socialists, and they all got shoo-in places on BYUT roster. Now these lawmakers will leave the BYUT faction.

Vinsky was appointed deputy head of the Batkivshchyna party, a member party of the BYUT bloc. Denkovych criticized Vinsky for his preference for paperwork, not work with grassroots.

Ivan Denkovych says BYUT lawmakers have long pushed for Vinsky’s resignation. Several months ago the BYUT faction voted to demand Vinsky’s resignation. Unfortunately, at the time there was a problem with Our Ukraine, the threat of the coalition unraveling and the economic crisis, and Vinsky’s case was on the back burner. But now the time has come at last,” Denkovych added.

Commenting on Vinsky’s intention to launch his own party, Denkovych said,” Who will join such a party? Maybe, Vinsky and his buddies Kaprienko and Zadyrko?”

“When Vinsky left the party staff to work as transport minister, we were much relieved. Now he left the transport ministry because he is corrupt,” the Lviv lawmaker said.

Another cabinet member, Defense Minister Yury Yekhanurov, has been accused of squandering public money and the cabinet urged Verkhovna Rada to vet his dismissal, Denkovych summed up.