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With only two weeks to go to the presidential election President Petro Poroshenko has been plagued by corruption scandals.
"Ukrainian Papers" massive business data leak embroils Poroshenko in
a new corruption scandal
Graham Stack in Kyiv
Another corruption scandal has broken out around Ukraine’s embattled President Petro Poroshenko, only two weeks away from presidential elections, via a massive leak of hacked files. The “Ukrainian Papers” leak contains thousands of documents and correspondence relating to Poro- shenko’s offshore business empire, his business partners and political allies Oleg Hladkovskiy and Ihor Kononenko, and their managers Sergii Zaitsev and Dmytro Lytvynets.
The leak comes shortly after a similar leak prompted Poroshenko to dismiss his business partner and deputy head of the National Security and Defence Council Hladkovskiy on March 4. Journalists accused Hladkovskiy of embezzlement from the army, which he denies.
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The new leak relates to the president and his inner circle of business partners turned top officials. It also includes
the email correspondence of Oleh Liashko, another presidential contender and – sensationally – the promise that the personal email correspondence of Poroshenko and his lieutenants will appear shortly.
Offshore empire
In the meantime it is Poroshenko and his
pals’ offshore empire that is currently attracting attention, since the revelations of the Panama Papers covering Porosh- enko's and his colleagues' extensive use of offshores have made this a favourite topic. Public sensitivity is high over alle- gations that Poroshenko has been trading with “the enemy” Russia, and has split loyalties deriving from offshores.
There is no guarantee of the authentic- ity of the data, except its sheer scale.
“The “Ukrainian Papers” leak contains thousands of documents and correspondence relating to Poroshenko’s offshore business empire, his business partners and political allies”


































































































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