“A move towards liberal democracy in Ukraine poses as much if not bigger a threat to the established order in Moscow than any Nato enlargement”
John Devitt is the co-founder and chief executive of the anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International Ireland. He tells Thomas Hubert that the invasion of Ukraine was motivated by the Kremlin’s resolve to destroy a model where the elite was subject to increasing public scrutiny, and warns that Ireland will remain complicit in money laundering and sanctions-busting unless a joint effort between the State and concerned citizens tracks suspicious financial flows going through this country.