KIEV: A populist Ukrainian party leader said Monday he would launch impeachment proceedings against President Petro Poroshenko over his use of offshore accounts revealed by the “Panama Papers” leak.
The action by Radical Party leader Oleg Lyashko is unlikely to succeed but is certain to add even further pressure on Poroshenko as he struggles to resolve a months-long political crisis that has paralysed the cash-strapped government.
A year-long worldwide media investigation into a trove of 11.5 million documents found that the former Soviet state’s pro-Western leader had registered a company in the British Virgin Islands that he never disclosed in his income …read more
Source: theSun
