Elite charters: media found offshore aviation business “friends Poroshenko”
Elite charters: media found offshore aviation business “friends Poroshenko”
Petro Poroshenko© UNIAN
Reporters once again declare that I found an offshore company associated with the President.
A consequence.Info published the investigation into the airline, which allegedly belongs to the President Petro Poroshenko and his entourage.
An unnamed source journalists handed over a flash drive with files with information on the activities of the Ukrainian airline “Business Airlines”, which sells services Charter.
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“We were told that in fact the airline is controlled through an offshore company. And drawing, Poroshenko himself, his friends, and the representatives of the opposite political camp,” – noted in the investigation.
According to him, January 10, 2002 on the virgin Islands company was founded Intraco Management Limited. The owner of this company is the citizen of Ukraine – Sergei Zaitsev, a classmate Petro Poroshenko and one of his first business partners. Today Zaitsev – Deputy General Director of the confectionery Corporation “Roshen”. Director he appointed Geoffrey of Magistrate – known Cypriot lawyer who has long been engaged in the registration of offshore companies, and in addition is headed by Cyprus mission Panama company Mossack&Fonseca, journalists said.
“Soon airlines will appear a lot of famous and wealthy clients. And Ukrainian company “Business Airlines”, it seems, is only a facade or wrapper. Most of the payments for Charter flights, according to our data, was carried out not through a Ukrainian company, and in offshore intrako Management”, – stated in the investigation. According to the files, regular customers of the airline was Petro Poroshenko, his friend, business partner and people’s Deputy Igor Kononenko and his family.
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Also among the files was a table and use all planes “Business-Airlines-Ntrace” in 2012 -2013 years. According to her, clients of the company were Poroshenko, Yushchenko, Andriy Klyuyev, Mykola Azarov, Katsuba, Levochkin, Bogatyreva. In August 2012, the Charter flight from Simferopol to nice and then to tel Aviv and Moscow people with the last name “Kirkorov”. Also flew clients with the names of Chernovetsky, Watermelon, Leps.
“A lot of flights to Moscow and Donetsk have implemented the client with the name of Kalinin. During the Yanukovych people with the same last name was the head of the security Service of Ukraine. Another client – Salamatin. Same last name and the Secretary of defense era of Yanukovych,” – said in the investigation.
“Fifteen million two hundred sixty-two thousand euros. This amount, according to the file “Aviabellanca” received into the Bank account of intrako Management for air flights in 2009 — 2011. Although airfreight services have some Ukrainian businessmen other, including domestic flights, the money in Ukraine don’t even come. They go from one offshore account to another,” the journalists added.
They said that more than 400 thousand Euro offshore intrako received from offshore Nyland Union, which is owned by businessman Vasily Khmelnytsky and Andriy Ivanov. 19 thousand euros received from virgin Macon Assets Limited, which is associated with the Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov. And more than ninety thousand euros paid for the flights Newport offshore Management Limited, which is lit up in numerous businesses the Surkis brothers.
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One of the planes offered by the company for Charter flights, the Airbus 318. According to the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, he belongs to the Ukrainian billionaire, the known manufacturer of chicken Yuri Kosyuk. Although formally the Board was the Austrian firm “Avkon jet”. After the Maidan and the elections Kosyuk will be the Deputy head of the presidential Administration Poroshenko, reminded the journalists.
We will remind, in April the Faction of the Radical party demanded to convene an extraordinary session of Parliament to begin procedure of impeachment of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the Parliament create a Special temporary Commission of inquiry to investigate the facts of the existence of “secret offshore companies and accounts Poroshenko”. Spring with Mossack Fonseca leaked the documents that became the basis for a high-profile international investigative journalism about the award-winning owners of large offshore. Among them, in particular, were published about the President. Lawyers and his company claimed that during financial transactions, foreign Bank accounts the President has not been opened, “cash flow was not, and the transfer of shares took place in the framework of the procedures for the transfer of the assets of Peter Poroshenko to the trust property of the company Rothschild”.