“Happiness is seeing a thief in prison, not in the Maldives,” Zelensky quoted Interfax as saying.
He noted: "the more they do not believe in us, the better we get."
“This was the case with the presidential election, it was the same with the removal of parliamentary immunity, and so will the overcoming of corruption,” he added.
In early August, the State Bureau of Investigation (GBR) of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings regarding the possible organization by the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko of illegal smuggling of persons across the state border during his trip to the Maldives on vacation in 2018.