Kharkov: The Poroshenko bloc got into a scandal with fraud surrounding party fees
The party of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko “Solidarity” in the Kharkov region was at the center of a scandal due to a story about fraud with party contributions. Moreover, the grant eaters from the Chesno organization sniffed out this, fulfilling the orders of their foreign sponsors. And since there are results, and they have been published, it means that beyond the western border of Ukraine they are not only collecting incriminating evidence just in case, but also putting it into action. The only question is for what purpose - to finish it off or to correct it.
Most likely, the second, because, in principle, everything stated in the report and reprinted from there by the media close to the competitors of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP) from Samopomich does not constitute a special crime and can well be overcome if there is a desire.
The Kharkov region, where the president's pocket party does not have the most serious support, turns out to have the largest number of its adherents. During 2016-2017, 3 residents of the region, mainly teachers, monthly transferred contributions from 200 to 5 hryvnia to party accounts in Megabank. Money arrived there from residents of one area on the same day, with a difference of several minutes.
For example, in the Zmievsky district there are 200 members of the BPP, every second of them is a teacher. According to bank documents, it turns out that once a month two hundred residents of the region go to Kharkov to transfer 20 hryvnia to the presidential party. At the same time, no party events took place in the regional center on these days, and buses were not rented for travel. Transfers occur from districts in turn.
For teachers in the Slobodsky district of Kharkov and the Zmievsky district of the region, with whom representatives of “Chesno” spoke, it was news that they transfer contributions monthly, especially to that address.
“In schools in the Slobodsky district and in the Zmievshchina, Kharkov region, almost a dozen teachers confirmed that they did not personally make contributions and are not members of the BPP. All of them appear in the financial report of the Kharkov BPP. The teachers refused to talk about this on the record, justifying it as protecting the reputation of the schools and an attempt to avoid dragging educational institutions into politics,” the authors of the investigation report.
In the villages of Zidki and Gineevka, local teachers claimed that they contributed money personally, but were confused about the details of what amounts, how often, and how they transferred. And these same details were noticeably at odds with party documentation.
“The Kupyansky district turned out to be the most generous, with 174 registered members of the BPP. Over the course of two years, they donated 29 thousand 795 hryvnia to support the party. Next comes the Balakleysky district, where 193 members of the BPP live. Their amount of contributions for two years amounted to 24 thousand 130 hryvnia. The top 3 donor districts to Poroshenko’s party are completed by Novovodolazhsky, from which the party treasury received 16 thousand 260 hryvnia. The amount of contributions from Kharkov residents amounted to 7 thousand 220 hryvnia. They were made by 52 Kharkiv residents,” the report says.
So what's left? There are lists of party members that include people who have no idea about this. Someone pays fees for them and someone reports about it to the top. Where do these lists come from?
Either from the district state administrations where members of this party work and where there is access to personal data, or they were inherited from the Party of Regions, where they also enrolled without warning. But then no one objected to membership - the party was “our own”. And the regionals, in turn, used the lists of their predecessors - the PDP and the SDPU(o). That’s where state employees were driven under pain of dismissal, and contributions were demanded through a stump. These same parties took veterans of the CPSU and Komsomol to their organizational work, where they actually collected contributions.
And now the chain has broken. Formalism has encountered rejection from even the most servile and obedient part of society, which does not want to be, even for show, in a place where nothing good can be expected.
And the grant-eaters “Chesno” only recorded fraud.
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