#PanamaPapers: Call for probe into Poroshenko
Ukrainian lawmakers said parliament should investigate allegations that President Petro Poroshenko used an offshore firm to avoid tax. |||
Kiev – Ukrainian lawmakers said on Monday parliament should investigate allegations that President Petro Poroshenko used an offshore firm to avoid tax, following a global leak of documents from a Panama-based law firm at the weekend. According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Poroshenko set up an offshore company to move his confectionery business, Roshen, to the British Virgin Islands in August 2014 during a peak in fighting between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists. Poroshenko has not …read more
Source: Independent Online
