Kiev millionaire offered to put up for auction the position of President of Ukraine
Since it is impossible to defeat corruption in Ukraine, it needs to be given the legal status prescribed by law.
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Kiev millionaire developer, co-owner of the Dream Town shopping center Alexander Melamud stated this in an interview with Korrespondent magazine, recalling that in one of his books he proposed legalizing bribery.
“In the USSR there was a rule: what cannot be defeated must be led. This brilliant principle must be used today in our country. If corruption cannot be curbed, it must be legalized. If you create competition between officials and legalize bribes, corruption will disappear by itself. When citizens can choose who to pay a bribe for solving a particular issue, prices will go down. And the official must pay taxes on the bribes received,” the businessman suggests.
“If he doesn’t pay, he will go to jail or a huge sum to the judge, who will also pay taxes,” the millionaire added. – For minor offenses, pay investigators, prosecutors, etc. Only crimes against a person are not subject to bribery. In such a state, officials do not have to pay salaries at all, and all positions must be sold at open auction. If you want to be a deputy, pay, if you want to be president, please. It’s expensive, but you can take big bribes.”
At the same time, the publication’s interlocutor believes that this approach to corruption will lead to “unprecedented economic growth” and the flourishing of the banking sector.
“Citizens will take out loans against the most liquid collateral, against the position itself. Social elevators will start working, the oligarchy will dissolve into oblivion. Competition between all layers of society levels out social inequality. We can become an advanced country in civilized development - from a communal-tribal system to the crown of progress - corruption,” Melamud concluded.
In 2015 Melamud сказалthat Goebbels was a dropout compared to modern Ukrainian nationalists and proposed to drive them out of the country.
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