British-owned architecture firm Jones East8 accused Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s confectionary company of intimidation today after the firm’s director resigned in tears and left the country following a mysterious telephone call. The director, Hanna Nikiforova, cited her objection to the architects’ legal challenge against chocolate giant Roshen as the reason for her departure.
Jones East8 are in the process of suing Roshen for $140,000 plus costs, saying the president’s company refused to pay for 40% of designs used to build a milk-processing plant in the city of Vinnytsya. But the telephone call appeared to have temporarily derailed the architects’ lawsuit.
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Source: Newsweek
