odessa customs police and prosecutors were not corrupt that s quite an achievement we re now i would have prepared to prepare to build this new singapore they re already the new but it didn t exactly work that needs another level of support but we showed the people different and i think that s some kind of legacy even if i m not i m totally unhappy with it and i m not satisfied with my performance but we could achieve as much as we could let me put it this way the trouble was the job wasn t high profile enough wasn t big enough didn t have enough power and you re still hungry for power rather look at the job offer there s a governor was very high profile in ukraine because it was the front line of fighting for the for basically for against corruption and for unity of ukraine told a western journalist in december last december that you had your eyes on a role in the future government ideally as problem and. social you re hungry of power let me let me put it put very plain went off or tw
that customs police and prosecutors were not corrupt that s quite an achievement we re now i would have prepared to prepare to build this new singapore there or indeed a new but it didn t exactly work that needs another level of support but we showed the people different and i think that s some kind of legacy even if i m not i m totally unhappy with it and i m not satisfied with my performance but we could achieve as much as we could let me put it this way the trouble was the job wasn t high profile wasn t big enough didn t have enough power and you re still hungry for power rather look at the job offer there s a governor was very high profile in ukraine because it was the front line of fighting for for basically for against corruption and for unity of ukraine but you talk to western journalists in december last december that you had your eyes on a role in the future government ideally as problem and well social you re hungry no power let me let me put this in a way to put it very plai
yes yes huge support in two thousand and eleven the european court of human rights just slammed the entire investigation and implicated you in the cover up didn t you know it said it was struck by how the different branches of state park at the ministry of interior the public prosecutor s office the prisons department the domestic courts and the president of georgia all acted in concert in preventing justice from being down that s a huge allegation against you at the same time the european court of human rights just last december it sat on the case against my former prime minister who is in prison that he is the only he is basically hostage to the fact that they were looking for some kind of evidence against me and because they refused to provide it it was a purely political case the government of georgia have hired hand best world investigators like retired well president years ago if you want these government of georgia that s controlled by because private shareholder but this is two
exactly because when i went there we all believed. that i brought with me we will believe that poroshenko would have interest in supporting us that it would have stayed and support you so they would be that easy no no i thought that they had you know it s all started nicely and well it all started beautiful people brought this government oppression fifty four percent we had my dad and we d all the criticisms we had of them and with all the scalps that we had of them we still thought they ll make this time it will be different why because it was after my dad because that s the european choice because it s you know how entrenched corruption. you start somewhere only get one thousand that s all you were prepared you know given. the u.k. ukrainian civil rights advocates said last year he knew he quit early just blaming everything and everyone else for not achieving anything you hearing that people that s not exactly right with the benefits we built the road that had been built for forty ye
was quite a message to the government that s why i think it also influenced the judge it really showed that i m not alone and people are standing but that s what matters let s let s talk about georgia john you re the first and i m sent here convicted you of abuse of power gave you a three year jail term. they say that in two thousand and eight you misused your presidential power to pardon four police officers convicted of the murder of a banker sandra give clearly and the pardons were part of a deal to cover up evidence surrounding the killing yes well look you say that s a lie no nobody has ever tried in modern history presents for a party you remember bill clinton. you know pardoning it s not just about partly it s about whether you covered up evidence surrounding the kill nobody has ever constitutional short makes it absolutely a limited right for president to part of the first second. term and they were pardoned together with hundred forty three other military officers potential ho