Poroshenko's associate and business partner was involved in a criminal offense in the EU
The past of the head of the Presidential Administration Boris Lozhkin was of interest to the law enforcement agencies of Austria, Verkhovna Rada deputy Sergei Leshchenko reports in his blog on the UP.
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“According to my information, Austria has sent a request to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine for legal assistance in the investigation being conducted by Vienna in relation to transactions carried out by Lozhkin,” the deputy writes. – His name appears in criminal proceedings under the article “money laundering”. The dubious transfers of multimillion-dollar sums were noticed by a unit of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, which investigates money laundering and contacts the country's banking institutions. In March 2015, it wrote a statement to the special prosecutor’s office stating that there was a suspicion of money laundering against three Ukrainians.”
Also, the former journalist of the UP informs that, in addition to Lozhkin, two more citizens of Ukraine appear in the criminal proceedings.
“Viktor Shokin received Austria’s request for bilateral legal assistance several weeks ago and kept it strictly secret,” Leshchenko notes. – Sources in the Presidential Administration say that the case concerns Lozhkin’s sale of the Ukrainian Media Holding in 2013 to the structures of Sergei Kurchenko, when transactions were carried out from offshore companies to offshore companies through accounts in Austrian banks. Lozhkin himself says that “neither Ukrainian nor Austrian law enforcement agencies approached him.”
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