Poroshenko's Lawyer Announced the $ 100 Billion Embezzlement Case Closed

According to the Ukrainian ex-president's lawyer, the case against Poroshenko was fabricated by agents of Russian influence. The case involved embezzling the budget funds and international aid. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), according to Poroshenko's lawyer, has closed the case against ex-President Petro Poroshenko on the possible embezzlement of $ 100 billion. The defender of the ex-president Igor Golovan told reporters about this on Tuesday, February 9, at the office of the Interfax-Ukraine agency. According to Golovan, the criminal proceedings, registered in December 2019 at the request of the deputy Renat Kuzmin and other deputies, were terminated on January 25. It was about the possible embezzlement of $ 100 billion from the Ukrainian state budget and international financial assistance by representatives of former US President Barack Obama in collusion with Petro Poroshenko. The lawyer dubbed the case fabricated The ex-president's lawyer called this case an example of how criminal proceedings "are fabricated by agents of influence of the the Russian Federation as an aggressor state with the help of residents of the government offices of today's Ukraine." According to Golovan, the basis for the statement of the deputies was the information of the Russian media and bloggers, who referred to the non-existent statement of the personal lawyer of the then head of the White House, Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, about the embezzlement of $ 100 billion. The lawyer insists that such slander was needed "in order to harm the relationship" between Ukraine and the United States and to influence the US elections.