Jaresko embezzled almost $2 million from American taxpayers - American investigative journalist
Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalya Yaresko collected 1,77 million bonuses from the American budget bypassing financial agreements, reports American journalist Robert Parry.
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“Before becoming Ukraine’s finance minister last December, Natalia Jaresko,” writes American investigative journalist Robert Parry, “collected $1.77 million in bonuses from American taxpayers who financed an investment fund where her annual compensation was to be capped at $150,000 million.” XNUMX, according to financial documents filed with the US Internal Revenue Service this year."
Jaresko headed the Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), an investment fund financed by the US government budget. “Using a loophole,” the site writes Consortiumnews, - Jaresko and some of her associates enriched themselves using money received from American taxpayers, avoiding any personal financial risks. She and other WNISEF employees collected bonuses on what they considered "profitable" certain investments, even if the general fund was losing money and shrinking, as it appears to have been in recent years." Natalia Jaresko
According to WNISEF's 2013 tax year filings with the IRS on August 11, 2015, the value of the investment fund fell from $150 million at its inception to $94 million in 2012 to $90 million in 2013. And continued to fall...
The purpose of the US Congress's launch of the WNISEF fund was to help jumpstart the investment economy in Ukraine and Moldova "for the benefit of the people of these countries." The project was introduced by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which selected Yaresko, a former American diplomat of Ukrainian origin, to launch the project.
“Thus,” the site writes, “Yaresko’s principles for the circulation of state funds indicate that the new regime is simply a reshuffling of those who rob Ukraine”...
Robert Parry claims that Jaresko began receiving inflated bonuses at the expense of American taxpayers funding the fund starting in 2004.
Reporter Robert Parry is a freelance journalist who has contributed to The Associated Press and Newsweek.
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