Posted on 11/20/2019 8:16:10 AM PST by COUNTrecount
KYIV. Nov 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian members of parliament have demanded the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, investigate suspicions of the legalization of $7.4 billion by the "family" of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych through the American investment fund Franklin Templeton Investments, which they said has ties to the U.S. Democratic Party.
At a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Wednesday, MP Andriy Derkach announced that deputies have received new materials from investigative journalists about international corruption and the participation of Ukrainian officials in it.
"Last week, November 14, the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), unnoticed by the media, announced a new suspicion to the notorious owner of Burisma, ex-Ecology Minister Zlochevsky. According to the suspicion, the Yanukovych family is suspected, in particular, with legalizing (laundering) of criminally obtained income through Franklin Templeton Investments, an investment fund carrying out purchases of external government loan bonds totaling $7.4 billion," Derkach said.
With reference to the investigation, he emphasized: it was money criminally obtained by the "family" of Yanukovych and invested in the purchase of Ukrainian debt in 2013-2014.
For his part, MP Oleksandr Dubinsky from the Servant of the People faction said that according to investigators, "the Yanukovych 'family' illegally obtained $7.4 billion and laundered the funds through an investment fund close to some representatives of the U.S. Democratic Party in the form of external government loan bonds."
Meanwhile, Derkach said that several facts indicate Franklin Templeton Investments' relationship with the U.S. Democratic Party.
"The son of Templeton's founder, John Templeton Jr., was one of President Obama's major campaign donors. Another fund-related character is Thomas Donilon. Managing Director of BlackRock Investment Institute, shareholder Franklin Templeton Investments, which has the largest share in the fund. It is noteworthy that he previously was Obama's national security advisor," Derkach said.
The MP said that the presidents of Ukraine and the United States should combine the efforts of the two countries to establish facts of corruption and money laundering with the participation of citizens of both countries.
"President Zelensky must pick up the phone, dial Trump, ask for help and cooperation in the fight against corruption and fly to Washington. The issue of combating international corruption in Ukraine with the participation of citizens, businessmen and U.S. officials should become a key during the meeting of the two presidents," he said.
Derkach said as a result of the meeting, it is necessary to build interaction between the Ukrainian investigating authorities and the U.S. Department of Justice to obtain information about the organizers of the bond issue, clients and beneficiaries of investment funds for each purchase, interrogate fund officials, etc.
As reported, on October 9, 2019, Derkach published official correspondence between NABU and the U.S. Embassy, according to which the first deputy of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Gizo Uglava, through his assistant Polina Chyzh, for a long time provided the U.S. Embassy with information that negatively affected the course of events in Ukraine and the United States.
Derkach said Chyzh received instructions from the representative of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Hanna Emelyanova to provide information on the case involving Zlochevsky.
Derkach also announced the amount of money transferred to representatives of the Burisma Group, including Hunter Biden. According to documents, in general, in favor of Hunter Biden, Alexander Kwasniewski, Alan Apter and Devon Archer, Burisma paid about $16.5 million.
According to Derkach, ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin repeatedly appealed to the NABU Director Artem Sytnyk in the framework of criminal proceedings for Burisma, but constantly received formal responses. The activities of Shokin, according to the MP, irritated then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during his fifth visit to Kyiv in two years. The visit on December 7-8, 2015, was devoted to solving the issue of Shokin's resignation for the affairs of Zlochevsky and Burisma, he said.
"The subject of pressure was the $1 billion credit guarantee that the United States should have provided to Ukraine: Biden himself acknowledged the pressure in his speech to the U.S. Foreign Relations Council in January 2018," Derkach said.
After losses, including in Argentina, star Franklin manager pulls out of most emerging markets
By Matt Wirz
Updated Oct. 17, 2019 10:09 pm ET
One of Wall Street’s most intrepid bond investors has turned defensive.
Michael Hasenstab built an almost $200 billion government-bond franchise for Franklin Templeton Investments by making large, profitable bets in risky countries. But that strategy backfired badly for the star fund manager in 2019 when a bet on the Argentine peso soured, saddling investors with losses.
Now...
You can bet the Dems did the same thing with the laundered money sent to Iran as well.
This is the moment we have been waiting for! Oh Happy Day!
Maybe this ‘Us Against Them” mentality was generalized to include the Ukraine. We were just then stepping deep into the Cold War way of thinking. I’m glad that’s over. I’ve met a few Ukrainians in the Bay Area. Good workers. Good capitalists.
followed sputnik in 7th grade science. back in the day ukraine was perceived more as a province of russia than a once-sovereign state. never had longterm stable boundaries with various parts being governed by germany, poland, russia, and austria (austro-hugarian empire).
Wait, they can demand and we have to look into it? Glad they didn’t ask for a favor. That is executable!
The Democrats were lured into a trap and took the bait hook, line and sinker.
The hook is set and they are about to get reeled in.
There is a reason that President Trump published a transcript of first call with Zelensky and.then made such a big deal about it .
This was perplexing to many because it really didn't say much of anything other than polite congratulations on victory so what was the big deal?
The big deal was not what was said on the first call, the big deal was what was not said on the first call.
It was quietly reported earlier that the investigation of Burisma and the Bidens was started long before the July 25 call to Ukraine. The investigation has been underway at least as far back as March and probably even before Zelensky was elected in March.
Comments have also been made that the investigation by Ukraine never ended in the first place.
Biden may have managed to get the prosecutor fired, but the investigation was never closed and it seems to actually have continued, possibly to give the corrupt Ukraine government at the time blackmail ammunition for leverage against the Obama Administration and Joe Biden.
The same Joe Biden who has bragged that Ukraine was his show and that he was number one point man who controlled Ukraine foreign policy as VP
Who better for the Ukraine to have a blackmail file than Quid Pro Joe.
At any rate, it is impossible for President Trump to have bribed or extorted Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and Burisma was already underway long before the July call.
In fact, it is almost a certainty that when President Trump said in the July call that he had heard reports about Ukraine corruption the reports he had heard had been coming from Ukraine itself as part of the Ukrainians ongoing investigation
In fact, Ukrainians tried to travel to the United States to inform US DOJ and FBI officials of the results they had uncovered but were denied Visas by Obama holdovers and given the run around by members of US diplomatic corps in Ukraine trying to cover up.
The Schiff is about to hit the fan and there is no way the media can flush this investigation down the memory hole with impeachment in full swing .
Big money illegally laundered to a bunch of high ranking democrat pols and they are busted
Sure hope you are right.
BlackRock's Investment Approach, (From their web site).
The Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities or other financial instruments that are components of, or have characteristics similar to, the securities included in the MSCI China A Onshore Index. The MSCI China A Onshore Index captures large and mid-cap representation across China securities listed on the SSE and SZSE.
Maybe that's why the democrats are so upset with Trump renegotiating the China trade agreement.. The crooks could lose money.???
Seems the democratic leadership may be more invested in our competitors then our own country...
Naw, their DimoCommunists of the Peoples Party of Socialist Homosexual Communist Dimocrat sponsored criminals of the Klinton, Obammy criminal clan. They didn’t do nothing wrong, cause they are criminals and this is just the way of doing bizness.
Keep that impeachment going Dems. LOL
Ukrainian members of parliament have demanded the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, investigate suspicions of the legalization of $7.4 billion by the “family” of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych through the American investment fund Franklin Templeton Investments, which they said has ties to the U.S. Democratic Party.
TRANSLATION....
We’ve all known about this. We’ve all been trying, desperately, to get our hands in that cookie jar. For those of us who haven’t, we demand an investigation to get rid of the old guard that has gotten rich off of this corruption that has been going on for years. For those that have, we demand an investigation and have information on much more powerful folks, that we’ll present to make a deal and get off. And I’ll be allowed to keep the money. Because in the US, you protest, break some windows, maybe light a few cars on fire. In the Ukraine, there’s a damn good chance I’ll be taken out of my home or office and dragged through the streets.
If this is true and they want a legitimate investigation, that could result in folks in prison jumpsuits(which I have no doubt that many members of Congress should be some), that some of them are in DC, NoVa, & NYC, figuring out how to hide/protect their money and if they can actually jump off the roof, shoot themselves or overdose. They all thought they’d never get caught.
Be careful what you wish for Pelosi, Schiff, et al, you just might get it.
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