A group of individuals with ties to US President Donald Trump reportedly pressed Ukraine to install new management at the top of the eastern European country’s massive state gas company to benefit firms controlled by Trump’s allies.
While touting connections to Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani last spring, the circle of businessmen and Republican donors were trying to funnel lucrative contracts to the firms, the Associated Press reported Sunday citing two people with knowledge of the plan.
The plan, however, was derailed after former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko lost the 2019 election to Volodymyr Zelensky, whose phone conversations with Trump have …read more
Source:: Al-Manar TV
