Poroshenko whistleblowers found Tymoshenko's sponsor
The team of investigative journalists Bihus.info, which previously unraveled the scandal with hizeniya in “Ukroboronprom”, in which Petro Poroshenko’s entourage is involved, published material in which they claim that Yulia Tymoshenko’s “Batkivshchyna” party is financed by Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Onishchenko, who is a suspect in “ gas business,” reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The Bihus.info investigative journalism team previously published material in which they reported on shadow financing schemes for the Batkivshchyna party. According to journalists, in 2018 the party received about 150 million hryvnia ($5,5 million) in donations, most of them from “fictitious donors.” Tymoshenko denied the journalists' accusations.
In the next program, journalists report that one of the donors to the Batkivshchyna party was Natalya Zubar, a cashier from the suburbs of Kyiv. According to journalists who refer to the party’s report, it transferred almost 1,5 million hryvnia (about 55 thousand dollars) to the political force over the year. Her sister donated a similar amount to the party, and her nephew donated more than a million hryvnia.
Journalists found out that Zubar, who continues to work in the supermarket, is also listed as the owner of two Kyiv companies. Among them is the Nadezhnaya Insurance Company LLC, which journalists linked with Alexander Kantselyaruk, one of the implementers of the so-called “gas case” of Alexander Onishchenko, who is accused of gas theft.
Also, according to the party’s report, Batkivshchyna was financed by Mikhail Verman, who, according to journalists, was the owner of the Art-Elm company, involved in the gas case. Now Art-Elm has closed, but its last registered address coincides with the registration address of Kantselaruk’s companies. “Werman received money from Onishchenko. Verman transferred more than 1 million hryvnia (about 37 thousand dollars) to the Batkivshchyna party. We got some kind of very transparent hint,” the program says.
A case has been opened against Onishchenko in Ukraine under the article “theft of state property on an especially large scale.” According to law enforcement officials, from January 2013 to January 2016, employees of a number of enterprises, including the Ukrgazdobycha company, with the assistance of Onishchenko, received public funds by selling domestically produced gas at a reduced price. These actions caused approximately $120,5 million in damages to the state. Later, the Rada agreed to bring Onishchenko to criminal liability, his detention and arrest, but he left Ukraine.
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