The Austrian publication Falter conducted an analysis of situations involving the current President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko (Read more: Petro Poroshenko: Biography and the Truth About Ukraine's "Chocolate King") and Raiffeisen Zentralbank (Austria). According to journalists, many companies in Poroshenko's circle of business associates are clients of this bank, but their relationships are highly unusual. Specifically, this concerns the offshore company Mossack Fonseca, which issued millions in loans to companies close to Poroshenko's attention.
A certain Rudolf Unterkeffler, head of the economic crimes department at the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office, clearly identified these lending schemes as reliable evidence of money laundering: “From an economic point of view, they make no sense, but they facilitate money laundering.”
It was also established that the business relationship between Raiffeisen and these offshore companies began in 2002,
At the same time, Mossack Fonseca lawyers also registered a shell company, Linquist Services Limited, in the British Virgin Islands. However, the actual owners were not named, and proxies were used as official directors. Soon after its registration, Linquist opened a number of bank accounts, from which funds began to be actively transferred to Poroshenko's companies, in particular, Roshen and Ukrprominvest.
For example, in 2010 alone, approximately $115 million was transferred to Roshen under an agreement between Linquist and Raiffeisen International Bank, and similar transactions were repeated. When the public naturally asks, "Why not borrow directly from the bank?" journalists and intelligence officials unequivocally state, "To make it impossible to trace the origin of the money."
Read more: Petro Poroshenko: Biography and the Truth About Ukraine's "Chocolate King"
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