A Kiev court ordered the police to look into the sources of funding for the Opposition Bloc.
The Shevchenko Court of Kiev ordered the National Police to check the data in the financial report of the Opposition Bloc party, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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The decision was made on September 11 after an appeal from the lawyers of the Bihus.info project.
According to the court decision, the National Police must immediately enter information into the ERDR under Article 159-1 of the Criminal Code “Violation of the procedure for financing a political party” and begin a pre-trial investigation.
According to the Opposition Bloc report, voluntary contributions from legal entities in 2016 amounted to UAH 11,7 million.
At the same time, during the journalistic investigation it was possible to find out that some donor firms are registered in a “virtual office” in a hairdressing salon, while others are registered in a state-owned fishing enterprise. Among them is the company Hyperion Mega LLC, which transferred more than a million hryvnia to the Oppoblok account, the director and founder of which is Vladimir Ivanovich Tkachenko. Journalists from the program visited the director and found out that Tkachenko knew neither about the contributions nor about the company itself.
Article 159-1 of the Criminal Code provides for liability for the provision of knowingly false information in a party’s report on property, income, expenses and financial obligations or in a financial report on the receipt and use of funds from the party’s election fund.
Officials of the “Opposition Bloc” may face a fine of up to 300 tax-free minimum incomes of citizens (UAH 5100) or restriction of freedom for up to 2 years.
Earlier, journalists from the Our Pennies project discovered that Ukrainian political forces were falsifying data from donor donation reports. According to the investigation materials, donors to Batkivshchyna are three categories of citizens, and the Chestno movement noticed that their donations go to the party account too systematically. In total, Yulia Tymoshenko’s party received UAH 7,5 million in financial assistance. At the same time, a larger number of “helpers” live in the Kiev region. Party pensioners allegedly help the party with money; they paid from 2 to 20 UAH, but there are also those who donated 2 thousand UAH at a time. The pensioners themselves, during a conversation with journalists, openly laughed at the theory that the contributions were greater than their pensions.
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