Ukraine President’s aide name figured in Panama leaks
A Deputy Director of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s confectionery empire is a beneficiary of a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, according to new information from the leaked Panama Papers. The link to Sergei Zaitsev is potentially embarrassing for Poroshenko because he said in April he wanted to pass a law requiring Ukrainians to disclose all their offshore holdings in an attempt to force them to pay tax in their home country. Serhiy Leshchenko, a prominent lawmaker in Poroshenko’s faction told yesterday that a special investigative commission should be set up to probe Poroshenko’s business dealings as a result of the latest allegations.
According to a database of documents from the Panama Papers made public on Monday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Zaitsev is a beneficiary of Intraco Management Ltd, registered in the British-ruled tax haven. The address given for Zaitsev in the database is identical to the business address of at least three other companies owned by Poroshenko, according to the Ukrainian state registry.
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