2016-11-15

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Investigation Uncovers Poroshenko's, Allies' Spanish Coastal Villas


The Spanish villa owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko

KYIV -- Along the picturesque shores of Estepona in southern Spain's Costa del Sol lie some of Europe's most elegant resorts and luxury estates, whose owners and residents include Hollywood actors, superstar athletes, and some of the continent's political elite.

But the list of property owners also includes the head of state, along with several key allies, of one of postcommunist Europe's most beleaguered and corruption-riddled states, an RFE/RL investigation has learned.

The Spanish properties of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko; Ihor Kononenko, a deputy head of the president's Bloc of Petro Poroshenko party and onetime business partner; and Oleh Hladkovskyy, a deputy secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, had previously been kept secret.

Read More At: http://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-poroshenko-rferl-investigation-spanish-villa/28116608.html

He's the present president of Ukraine, this is bad news; that area, Oligarchies, Ukraine and Russia are both very corrupt.

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