19:29, 20 April 2020

Poroshenko allegedly received money from several sources owned by his closest associate, Igor Kononenko.

The new allegations of corruption voiced against the former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. He allegedly received a gigantic sum of $ 200 million for closing a case against Burisma (the son of former US Vice President Joe Biden worked in this company).

This was told by a former employee of the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States Andriy Telizhenko. The video appeared on the Svobodnyi Youtube channel, Strana reports.

According to the diplomat, Poroshenko received money from several sources owned by his closest associate, Igor Kononenko.

“The final amount that Mr. Poroshenko received was $ 200 million for Burisma, for closing the case,” says Andriy Telizhenko.

Prosecutor General Iryna Venedyktova has earlier registered a criminal case against former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the unlawful appointment of Supreme Court justices. This was reported by the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General.

“The Prosecutor General, on the basis of the appeal of the Supreme Court’s employees, has entered data into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations on possible unlawful actions of the President of Ukraine, whose powers have been terminated, and others in issuing Presidential Decrees of November 10, 2017 No. 357/2017 and of May 2019 No. 195/2019 “On the appointment of judges of Supreme Court,” the message reads.

According to the appeal of the Supreme Court’s employees, the grounds for issuing the decrees of the former president and appointing judges do not comply with the provisions of the Constitution and the Law “On the judiciary and status of judges”.

These actions are qualified as abuse of authority or office (Part 2 of Article 364 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code), interference with the activities of judicial authorities (Part 2 of Article 376), failure to comply with a judgment (Part 4 of Article 382), and actions aimed at forceful change or overthrow of the constitutional order or take-over of government (Part 1, 2, Art. 109).

As we reported earlier, on February 28, 2020, Ukraine’s fifth President Petro Poroshenko came to the State Bureau of Investigation for questioning about the appointment of judges of the Supreme Court.  

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