RFE/RL investigative journalist Katya Gorchinskaya has been looking at how a senior prosecutor under Yanukovych has managed to sidestep lustration:
KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutor Oleh Valendyuk should have been out of a job last fall, the victim of a lustration law meant to clear away members of former President Viktor Yanukovych's team after his ouster at the hands of pro-European protesters.
Instead, Valendyuk holds a higher position than ever: he is the top prosecutor in the capital, Kyiv.
His story is a case study in the government's struggles to put the corruption-riddled past behind it and start with a clean slate, setting the stage for reforms needed to improve the nation's economy and make it less vulnerable to Russia.
The position he held before the Euromaidan protests toppled Yanukovych in February 2014 put Valendyuk squarely in the ranks of officials subject to lustration and barred from holding public office under a law adopted in September.
But Valendyuk used his connections, his 18 years of experience, and his intimate knowledge of Ukraine's graft-marred legal system to win an exception.
And he did it in just three business days.
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