Poroshenko is trying to save his main asset from arrest
Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko re-registered his main asset - the Roshen corporation - in the name of his son, because he is afraid of losing it while under criminal prosecution.
The initiator of the criminal cases against Poroshenko, the former deputy head of the presidential administration of President Viktor Yanukovych, lawyer Andrei Portnov, stated this on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Portnov, the current government is allowing Poroshenko and his entourage to withdraw money from the country.
“Why do some people re-register their assets to other people? Especially at this price. What made Petro Poroshenko in this particular case transfer everything to his son? I think you don’t have to be very smart here not to guess that Petro Poroshenko is expecting a possible seizure of his assets and, as a result, confiscation of property.
I think that Petro Poroshenko, despite the fact that the authorities have not yet taken any tough legal decisions against him, is still afraid that such decisions may be made. It is in this regard that, in my opinion, he is transferring his key business to his son. This is because it will be very difficult for the authorities to seize property and then confiscate it.
I, as a legal specialist, estimate that if law enforcement has already approached this, then in order to then rewind the deal on the sale of his key corporation from father to son, it will take about a year. This means that today's authorities are actually letting Poroshenko go. The Prosecutor General is giving every opportunity today to Petro Poroshenko and his political entourage, which is involved in laundering criminal proceeds, theft from the army, theft from the budget, the government gives them to actually hide these proceeds,” Portnov said.
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