Akhmetov was interrogated in Kyiv
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau questioned businessman, owner of System Capital Management Rinat Akhmetov in criminal proceedings related to the publication of records of Verkhovna Rada deputy from the “Will of the People” group Alexander Onishchenko.
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About it A source in NABU told the Ukrainian News agency.
“Akhmetov was (interrogated) today,” he said.
According to him, he was interrogated as a witness in the case of the so-called Onishchenko recordings.
The department's press service confirmed to the agency the fact of Akhmetov's interrogation.
Onishchenko, hiding abroad, has recently made a number of scandalous statements. In an interview with the Strana publication, he said that, on behalf of Petro Poroshenko’s administration, he bought votes in the Verkhovna Rada, “bargained and organized commercial votes” in favor of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Onishchenko also claims that for a year he recorded his conversations with Poroshenko and his entourage on a voice recorder in his wristwatch, and at the end of November he handed over the audio recordings to the US intelligence services.
Immediately after this, the Security Service of Ukraine announced that it suspected Onishchenko of treason.
On December 2 last year, Onishchenko spoke on one of the Russian federal television channels and stated that Poroshenko extorted money from large businessmen, including Akhmetov, and used part of these sums to bribe deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.
On December 6, 2016, Onishchenko released one of his audio recordings. The fugitive politician assures that these were negotiations with the “envoy from the Presidential Administration,” People’s Deputy Oles Dovgy, and they discussed possible options for terminating criminal proceedings against Onishchenko.
On February 9, 2017, the Ukrainian website “Strana” published a recording of a conversation, the participants of which, according to the publication, were Onishchenko and former Popular Front deputy Nikolai Martynenko.
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