Avakov responded to Leshchenko's accusation of $40 million being siphoned offshore.

Arsen Avakov

Arsen Avakov

On Friday, September 25, 2015, we wrote that MP Sergei In his blog on UP, Leshchenko accused Avakov's business partner, Igor Kotvitsky, of transferring $40 million offshore during the Maidan events..

In turn, Avakov responded to Leshchenko, accusing him of orchestrating a "hit job" for Konstantin Grigorishin. The Interior Minister stated that he would not ask the MP to refute the information and would let it "remain on his conscience."

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs wrote that Leshchenko is “a skilled manipulator who is in the service of Grigorishin.”

In support of his business partner, Avakov stated that, unlike Leshchenko, Kotvitskyi paid 32 million hryvnias in income tax last year. However, as journalists noted, the minister said nothing substantive about the origin and transfer of the $40 million Leshchenko claimed.

 

 

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