Ukrainian Lawmaker Says Manafort Hid Yanukovych Payments

Tuesday, March 21 , 2017 - 20:00 (EET) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

A member of Ukraine’s parliament has presented documents which he says proves that U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager tried to hide a large payment from Ukraine’s ousted pro-Russian president. Serhiy Leshchenko showed the documents at a news conference in Kyiv on March 21. They purportedly show a $750,000 payment sent to an offshore account of Manafort’s company, disguised as a payment for computers, which Leshchenko claims was actually to pay for Manafort’s political consulting work for Yanukovych. (Video: Ukrainian Crisis Media Center) …read more

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