Ukrainian politics is a dirty and expensive game. Political parties spend colossal budgets to meet the main goals of their sponsors: being elected, getting positions in the cabinet, taking control over ‘income streams’. Recently Ukrainians got their first chance from the times of the country’s independence to look inside the ‘bank vault’ and see the financial reports of the major Ukrainian parties
8 August 2016, 11:52 — Publications — Roman Romaniuk
Minister of Finance Oleksandr Danyliuk does not see reasons why Ukraine should repay $3 billion that was borrowed at the end of the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) together with the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine and police claim to have stopped the activities of a front which laundered more than ₴1 billion in 2014–2016.
The claims of Gazprom about the debt of Naftogaz for gas that was allegedly supplied by the Russian company to the non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are erroneous.
Offshore accounts of Ukrainian origin amount to $117 billion, according to Global Financial Integrity or $167 billion accodring to the Tax Justice Network.