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Ukraine: The president's offshore tax plan. INVESTIGATION A giant leak of documents on corruption across the globe reveals financial schemes by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. 04.04.16 10:14 435 303 2 086 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Offshore scandal: leak includes 20 persons related to Ukraine International investigative journalists and a number of large media simultaneously posted vast articles about well-known owners of large offshore companies, with a lot of influential people among them. 04.04.16 11:18 220 901 273 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

52 well-known Ukrainian businessmen and politicians exposed in offshore scandal. LIST (in Russian) The Panama Papers, released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on May 9 and listing some 200,000 offshore companies, unveil 469 companies and 643 individuals associated with Ukraine. About a third of these companies are no longer active today or undergo liquidation. 16.05.16 19:18 188 042 293 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

"Have you no shame? Stop before I tell how you adopted budget-2014!" - Yuzhanina, Tymoshenko, and Kuzhel discuss deoffshorization bills. VIDEO Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Taxation and Customs Policy Nina Yuzhanina and Verkhovna Rada Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship Deputy Head Oleksandra Kuzhel held a very emotional discussion of bills on deoffshorization at a meeting of the ad hoc working group. 25.04.16 17:01 160 971 481 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

"I am clown, and you are finance minister and CEO in three offshore firms," - verbal dispute between Radical Party leader Liashko and Finance Minister Danyliuk. VIDEO Parliament's chief "radical" Oleh Liashko demanded that Minister of Finance Oleksandr Danyliuk explain the information about his directorship in three offshore companies. 22.04.16 11:32 152 243 448 Previously in trend: Hroisman's Cabinet

Poroshenko on offshore scandal: "I've stepped down from asset management" President Petro Poroshenko expects the companies which assumed the management of his assets to provide a full explanation to the media. 04.04.16 17:08 132 920 668 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

"Person in charge of Ukraine’s defense backstabbed country," – Poroshenko Block MP on offshore scandal The offshore scandal, which President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is involved in, has jeopardized the country's future. 04.04.16 14:07 129 435 311 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Reporters found $2 bln in offshore deals related to Putin A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. 04.04.16 09:40 126 230 403 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

"I did it for other reasons than tax evasion," - Poroshenko explained his Panamanian offshore company objectives President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko explained the purpose for the creation of offshore companies exposed by the foreign media. 06.04.16 11:15 115 588 506 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Odesa Mayor Trukhanov - Russian citizen and offshore companies owner, who paved his way to post from turbulent 90s. INVESTIGATION Journalists have found more than 20 enterprises related to Odesa Mayor Hennadii Trukhanov and his close associates through an offshore on Virgin Islands while he specified as not a citizen of Ukraine in all registration documents. 04.04.16 12:00 104 622 157 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Journalist Hnap to Poroshenko: "We will never win this war as long as you remain businessman and head of state in one person. Media shall show you no mercy" Slіdstvo.іnfo journalist Dmytro Hnap, whose investigation unveiled details of Petro Poroshenko’s offshore practice, said that the president deserved to be condemned by the media. 04.04.16 16:31 101 830 464 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Lozhkin's company received € 315 million through offshore companies from accomplice of Yanukovych, - PPB MP Leshchenko Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Serhii Leshchenko said the company of the head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Borys Lozhkin sold Ukrainian media holding to Serhii Kurchenko through offshore schemes. 10.04.16 10:29 94 768 422 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

"Panama Papers - 2": Ukraine's major confectionery "Konti" registered in tax haven, former PM Azarov's son possesses 26 offshore firms. INFOGRAPHICS The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has unveiled a database of more than 200,000 offshore companies registered through Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider. 10.05.16 10:40 90 557 165 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

NABU refuses to open case against Poroshenko’s offshore practice: "President beyond our jurisdiction" The National Anti-corruption Bureau states it will be unable to investigate Poroshenko’s offshore practice. 04.04.16 13:06 87 547 362 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Offshore scandal with Poroshenko: no crime component found by PGO Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine sees no crime component in the activities of President Poroshenko upon having learnt about his offshore companies in Panama. 04.04.16 15:21 79 646 292 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Poroshenko's Fund moved out almost 4 mil EUR from Ukraine bypassing NBU ban, - journalists. VIDEO Moving out of this amount was openly banned by the National Bank of Ukraine at that moment. 19.05.16 12:01 63 794 316 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Poroshenko's offshore scandal indicates real changes in Ukraine, - Wall Street Journal You can debate the leader’s wealth in Kiev, but not in Moscow. 06.04.16 23:00 58 162 300 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

No offshore scandal ever occurred, - Poroshenko President Petro Poroshenko categorically denied any accusations of violating the Ukrainian legislation and inventing tax evasion schemes. 03.06.16 16:38 51 492 311 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

U.S. not changed attitude to Poroshenko because of "Panama papers": Too early to draw conclusions, - White House There's no need to jump to conclusions regarding "Panama papers," including those concerning President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. 05.04.16 09:42 51 090 460 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Poroshenko's business partner Zaitsev owns offshore firm which bought fuel from Gazprom, - journalist. DOCUMENT Business partner of Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko Serhii Zaitsev has turned out to be a beneficiary of Intraco Management Ltd, registered in the British Virgin Islands - a famous tax haven. This company, according to media reports, bought fuel in fall of 2014 from a subsidiary of Gazprom as well as paid for vacation and overseas studies of Ihor Kononenko's daughter and Poroshenko's charter flights after he became president. 10.05.16 13:01 50 487 264 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Finance Minister Danyliuk confirms directorship in three offshore companies Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk has confirmed being CEO in three companies abroad. 22.04.16 10:38 48 902 129

Poroshenko owns at least two offshore firms, - The Guardian Except for Poroshenko's BVI company set up in August 2014, the president is also linked to another offshore firm. 05.04.16 21:32 43 778 190 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

“No grounds to accuse Poroshenko of tax evasion. All allegations turned out to be ‘soap bubbles’," - Lutsenko Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko stresses that no grounds to accuse President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko of tax evasion in the context of ‘Panama offshore scandal’ have been found. 09.06.16 19:58 43 179 225 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Poroshenko's offshore scandal offers no major wrongdoing, but raises number of important questions, - Washington Post The incident will accelerate the public debate in Ukraine about its outdated corporate governance laws, potential conflicts of interests and political accountability among officials in the highest offices 05.04.16 23:18 36 075 294 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Zelenskyi’s, His Team’s Companies Obtain USD 40 Million From Businessman Kolomoiskyi’s Structures Via Offshore – Pandora Papers. ВИДЕО Companies of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and his team members have received USD 40 million from structures of businessman Ihor Kolomoiskyi via offshores since 2012. 04.10.21 14:09 34 389 345

Rada vice-speaker proposes to establish temporary parliamentary commission to inquire into Poroshenko’s offshore companies The journalistic investigation regarding President Petro Poroshenko’s offshore assets is unlikely to result in his impeachment. 04.04.16 17:13 27 439 140 Previously in trend: Hroisman's Cabinet Panama offshore scandal

Probe into Poroshenko's offshore firms smacks of manipulation, - Information Policy Minister Stets The authors of the TV program about an offshore company related to President Petro Poroshenko resorted to a number of manipulations that cast a shadow on the investigation itself. 04.04.16 21:30 25 764 251 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Putin lives with Kabaeva and used Cyprus offshore to enrich himself on Putinka vodka - media. PHOTOS Russian dictator Vladimir Putin lives in a residence on Valdai with gymnast and alleged mother of his children Alina Kabaeva. The president of the Russian Federation also owns a Cypriot offshore company - Ermira Consultants, which is a "community" for the Kremlin dictator and his entourage. 28.02.23 16:34 18 480 49

Participants of one-man pickets for Putin's impeachment detained outside Russia's Duma. PHOTOS Outside the State Duma building in Moscow, the police detained the participants of one-man pickets, who demanded the impeachment of Russia's President Vladimir Putin over the recent offshore scandal. 05.04.16 17:35 17 889 52 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

National Agency for Prevention of Corruption should deal with Danyliuk's offshore firms, - Hroisman Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman says Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk must provide an exhaustive answer regarding his offshore firms, and the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption should examine this issue in detail. 22.04.16 13:44 17 590 63

Zelenskyi claims withdrawal from Cyprus company owning movie business in Russia Showman Volodymyr Zelenskyi said he is to withdraw membership in Green Family LTD company, which owns movie production company Green Films in Russia. 24.01.19 12:14 17 365 549 Previously in trend: Presidential election 2019

‘Panama papers’ release will have no negative impact on Ukraine, - US Ambassador Pyatt U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt believes that the leak of the 'Panama papers' will not have negative impact on Ukraine. 06.04.16 12:52 16 268 168 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

State Statistics Service named top 10 countries and offshores investing into Ukraine Volume of foreign investment in Ukraine in the first half of 2015 amounts to $1.78 billion. 14.08.15 18:13 14 828 78

Liechtenstein unfroze 13 million francs on accounts of Yanukovych-era judge, - Deutche Welle 13 million Swiss francs on the Liechtenstein accounts of allegedly corrupt Ukrainian judge Artur Yemelianov and his wife have been unfrozen. According to Liechtenstein's law enforcement, this happened because Ukraine failed to prove the illegality of the money origin. In turn, the Prosecutor General's Office notes that the funds can not be frozen by Ukrainian court as Liechtenstein does not provide necessary information requested by Ukrainian law enforcers. 18.07.16 13:20 14 785 58

NACB Analyzing All PrivatBank Transactions, Including Those Mentioned In Pandora Papers, As Part Of Its Investigation The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NACB) is analyzing all PrivatBank transactions, including the transactions mentioned in the Pandora Papers, as part of the investigation of the so-called PrivatBank case. 05.10.21 10:32 14 247 137

MP Soboliev on establishment of commission to investigate offshore practices and corruption: “We decided to take a break until morning. Commission may be formed without PPB members” Ukrainian lawmakers decided to return to the subject of establishment of the Provisional Investigatory Commission on corruption tomorrow morning. Petro Poroshenko Bloc (PPB) MPs must approve and nominate their candidates for positions in the Commission by that time. 18.05.16 15:36 13 197 29 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Only parliamentary investigative commission can give decisive answer on Poroshenko’s offshore companies, - deputy head of Batkivshchyna faction Serhii Soboliev The definite answer about the legality of President Poroshenko’s offshore accounts can be given only by an investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada. 10.04.16 13:41 13 011 161 Previously in trend: Panama offshore scandal

Laws on ‘deoffshorization’ to be drafted by June 1, Poroshenko says The laws on the Ukrainian economy’s deoffshorization - preventing and countering base erosion and profit shifting - will be drafted by June 1. They will be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada after that. 19.04.16 23:20 12 656 150

Ukraine to reconsider bilateral agreements as part of deoffshorization, - Finance Minister Danyliuk Ukraine plans to revise bilateral tax agreements within the framework of deoffshorization process. 20.04.16 10:25 10 631 22

British MPs say Russian 'dirty money' flowing through London damages UK A committee of British lawmakers Monday said that Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions damages the government’s efforts to take a tough stance against Moscow’s aggressive foreign policy. 21.05.18 15:54 8 978 33 Previously in trend: Sanctions against Russia

Yatseniuk initiates investigation into granting licenses to offshore companies for development of seven Black Sea shelf oil and gas reserves Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk instructed Vice Prime Minister Valerii Voshchevskyi to figure out how two offshore companies from Cyprus have almost received seven licenses for development of strategic oil and gas deposits on the Black Sea shelf adjacent to Odesa region. 12.08.15 16:15 7 198 42

This Regime is Supefast in Thievery: $57 Billion Transferred to Offshore Accounts in 2.5 Years, Kuzhel In the past 2.5 years 57 billion dollars were transferred to offshore accounts from Ukraine compared to 179 billion in over 20 years of Independence. 13.09.12 07:23 5 951 58

"I have no 'detention list'," Prosecutor General Lutsenko says Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko will measure his achievements on the post not by number of persons detained, but by amounts of funds returned to the budget. 26.07.16 10:36 3 887 44 Previously in trend: Prosecutor General Lutsenko

Lutsenko says he returned $4 bln to Ukraine Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said that $4 billion had been returned to the state during his tenure. 18.11.19 14:23 1 807 53