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Panama Papers Putinophobia Nabs Petro Poroshenko

John Batchelor podcast april 6,2016 mp3

Stephen F. Cohen, NYU. Princeton. EastWestAccord.com.

“…Ukrainian politicians wasted no time in using the revelations put forward against Poroshenko in the so-called “Panama Papers” — a trove of 11.5 million documents leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca — to announce efforts to oust Poroshenko, who adamantly denies that he did anything illegal.

“Oleh Lyashko, a populist politician and the head of Ukraine’s Radical Party, wrote onMonday that he plans to launch impeachment proceedings against Poroshenko due to his offshore holdings in the British Virgin Islands.

“We demand the creation of a special temporary investigative committee in parliament that would probe the secret offshore companies and accounts of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko,” Lyashko said.

“The call was echoed in astatement by the pro-Western Samopomich party on Monday, who also said that they will call for the creation of a committee in parliament to investigate the allegations against Poroshenko….”

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/04/will-the-panama-papers-bring-down-ukraines-chocolate-king-poroshenko/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/04/russia-says-putin-main-target-panama-papers/82600272/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/reports-of-offshore-companies-raise-questions-about-beijings-graft-fight-1459869258