Ukraine’s Ex-President Questioned In TV Tax Evasion Case

Monday, August 12 , 2019 - 19:02 (EET) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko answered investigators’ questions in an alleged tax-evasion case involving the purchase of a TV station. His supporters, including his teenage children, faced off with anti-Poroshenko protesters outside the State Bureau for Investigations in Kyiv on August 12. When Poroshenko emerged after the questioning, he said he did not trust the investigators in the case. But he added that he would submit to a polygraph test if it was broadcast live on the television channel, Pryamiy TV. Officials said he had been summoned only as a witness in the case, which stems from Pyramiy’s change of …read more

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