President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko
«Panama dossier” has provoked debate in Ukraine on the responsibility of the President of Petro Poroshenko for concealing offshore. Impeachment is impossible, experts say, but may decrease the rating of the presidential party
The publication of “Panama dossier” to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has provoked a political scandal: the opponents and supporters of President even to discuss mechanisms to attract the leader responsible for the concealment of offshore accounts -. from the investigation to impeach
What became known Poroshenko
In the investigation of the International consortium of investigative journalists (ICIJ) and the Center for investigation of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP), published on April 3 tells that the confectionery business Poroshenko (company Roshen) was removed to offshore in the British Virgin islands (BVI). Prime Asset Partners Ltd, incorporated in 2014, became the holding company for the Ukrainian and Cypriot structures Roshen , and by the head of the State – its sole owner
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This company President Poroshenko in their declarations for 2014 and 2015 did not indicate the journalists noted.
Shares of Prime Asset Partners have no par value, assured journalists Makar Psenyuk, managing director of investment company the ICU, which is one of the financial advisors for the sale of the corporation Roshen. That is why the offshore has not been specified in the Declaration Poroshenko, he explained: requirements in 2014 was not allowed to do this. However, according to documents obtained OCCRP, from the moment of registration August 21, 2014 the stock Prime Asset Partners Ltd is actually worth $ 1,000, and the sole owner was recorded Poroshenko.
There is no reason to check
President of Ukraine on Monday afternoon wrote on his Facebook, that, as president, stepped away from the business of asset management and instructed their consulting and law firms. Now he expects that asset managers “provide a full explanation for the Ukrainian and international media».
corpus delicti in the actions of the president there, said on Monday Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. And Info was “previously studied by experts of the Prosecutor General, who did not see in it the criminal element,” said Attorney Prosecutor General Vladislav Kutsenko.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in a statement on Facebook wrote that the president’s actions can not be the subject of proceedings, since they do not have jurisdiction to hear the case against the leader of the state. In this in respect of other persons mentioned in the media materials, is currently “conducted analytical work in order to establish grounds for pre of the investigation».
the threat of impeachment
the most serious claim of the opponents is the fact that business registration in the offshore Poroshenko doing it in August 2014: at the time when the south-eastern Ukraine, took place one of the most bloodiest episodes of the war – fighting under Ilovaiskaya. “During the war for independence, we have a president-huckster” – he expressed his Facebook MP of the faction “Self-help” Yegor Sobolev. Opening of offshore companies at a time when the Ukrainian military killed in Ilovaiskaya boiler in August 2014, was “the height of cynicism,” said Monday the leader of the Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko.
Sobolev also wrote that the president needed to “remove with the presidency. ” The leader of the Radical Party, Oleg Lyashko proposed mechanism: create a special commission of the Verkhovna Rada and to begin impeachment proceedings
According to Ukrainian political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky, to realize the script to impeach the deputy will not succeed, since the procedure under the law is too complex.. According to Art. 111 of the Constitution, the President may be removed from office by Parliament if he commits treason or other crime. To initiate the question of bias in the impeachment of President needs the support of the parliamentary majority. To investigate the Parliament create a temporary commission of inquiry with the special prosecutor and investigator. To the president was dismissed by Parliament, need the support of at least three quarters of the constitutional composition after the test case by the Constitutional Court.
In the Radical Party faction Lyashko is 21 people.
Even members presidential “Block Poroshenko” (BPP) is not unanimous on the legality of actions of the head of state. According to the MP from the BPP Mustafa Nayem, information about offshore bears reputational damage to the president. He proposed the creation of a temporary fee in the parliament to study the issue. Another deputy faction Vladislav Golub said, “Interfax-Ukraine” the president acted according to the law, and information, “began to be used solely for the purposes of the political situation.”
Faction « Self ” initiates the creation of the temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada for the objective investigation « offshore scandal” around the President of Ukraine . Information as stated in the statement of the faction, “endangers the institution of the President and creates the danger of a comprehensive political crisis in Ukraine.”
The argument opponents
The scandal with the offshore companies give additional argument opponents of the president to put pressure on him, a political analyst Pogrebinsky said. It is on hand to Yulia Tymoshenko, who has already started a campaign against the president.
According Pogrebinsky, to the President and his entourage the most difficult may be that such information could not be made public without the “approval of the guardians of the US” . Inside Ukraine it can be seen as a sanction for the emergence of new attacks on the president, said Pogrebinsky.
Publication of information on offshore occurred during the ongoing government crisis in Ukraine: the president is seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, but can collect most parliament to address this issue. Poroshenko is currently not in the country – he went on a visit to Japan
In the negotiations on a coalition and form a government scandal is unlikely to affect, predicts expert Andrew Ukrainian Bouzar: a decision on the formation of the government to a large extent depend on. . Western partners, which will certainly data into account, but are interested in the speedy formation of a government and to avoid early elections scenario
The scandal is unlikely to have a major impact on the rating of the president, says Bouzar: every two years, Poroshenko power and so is under pressure and it has been criticized for oligarchic past. However, the scandal could hit his party, which tries to increase its popularity on the eve of possible early elections.
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