US is promoting corruption in Ukraine!
Corrupt officials, President Poroshenko and oligarch Kolomoyiskiy, hide billions of dollars and do not pay taxes!
In February 2016, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland reported to the Attorney General of the Confederation Michael Lauber, the request of the US authorities, to defer the initiation of criminal proceedings against Igor Kolomoiskiy about using fraudulent schemes with stock assets on results of the investigation by the regulatory Swiss authority for the Financial Markets. Kolomoiskiy is one of the richest oligarch in Ukraine, in 2014 became the governor of Dnepropetrovsk and with the support of the American services organized armed groups "Aydar" and "Azov", which were inhuman and violent during the conflict in the East of Ukraine.
On the 3 of April worldwide mass media, based on data of the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) and OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) simultaneously published materials about leaders hiding the large funds in offshore companies. According to Panamanian law firm «Mossack Fonseca», conspicuously active are Ukrainian officials. In 2014 President Poroshenko opened three offshore companies, including Panama daughter confectionery corporation «Roshen», hiding from the tax system 1.4 billion USD, without specifying the amount in the income statement. For the same reason Prime Minister of Iceland has already resigned!
Our colleagues from ICIJ and OCCRP reported that got an access to the data of Panamanian and other offshore companies from the help of American structures, mainly for compromising leaders of the Russian Federation. According to available data, direct participation of President Putin in the offshore has not been confirmed, but other, 12 active and former world leaders were under investigation . Moreover, the documents contain data about 128 well-known politicians, officials, and about 29 billionaires from the Forbes list.
Americans protect their corrupt officials at all levels.
On the 6 of April, US Ambassador in Ukraine, Geoffrey Ross Pyatt, at a meeting with journalists said : "Panamanian offshore history is associated with the name of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Negative consequences will not be. US will continue to maintain the current political leadership in Kiev. "
US officials, based on political interests and negative consequences of Ukrainian politicians corruption cases disclosure, are justifying the complexity of the situation primarily associated with the "Russian aggression".They persuaded the Attorney General of Switzerland Michael Lauber not to initiate criminal proceedings against the oligarch Igor Kolomoiskiy.
Corrupts, Poroshenko and Kolomoiskiy, rob already impoverished Ukrainian people, appropriating large sums, while the EU and US gives billions to Ukraine.
Laurent Nowak
OCCRP's regional coordinator for the Eastern Europe