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WIKILEAKS EXPOSES DARK SIDES OF UKRAINE'S POROSHENKO, TYMOSHENKO
18:21 * 12.06.14
Two diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks Public Library on
US Diplomacy reveal that Ukraine's president-elect Petr Poroshenko
served as an informant for United States' State Department, the Voice
of Russia reports.
A confidential message from the US Embassy in Kiev dating back to April
29, 2006 mentions the now widely-known confectionary tycoon twice.
Back then Poroshenko reportedly handed to the US Embassy in Kiev
inside information on the plotting a coalition government in 2006,
Wikileaks say.
The message was intended for Ambassador John Herbst to update him
on how things stood in April 2006, Poroshenko describing himself
as an insider from the party Nasha Ukrayina (Our Ukraine), a bloc
associated with former President Viktor Yushchenko, passionately
welcomed by the western leaders.
The diplomat, however, questioned the authenticity of Poroshenko's
message suspecting it to be part of backdoor games aimed at arresting
once Yushchenko's allies - Yuliya Tymoshenko and Aleksandr Turchynov
until recently - acting Ukraine's President.
Who is Poroshenko - the figure to use his might and power to wind down
the deadly standoff in the country's southeast or a mere businessman
who skillfully pulls his strings - is still debated.
Other Wikileaks documents that came recently to light show that
Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko might have cooperated
with mafia boss Seymon Mogilievich when she headed United Energy
Systems.
In a message to Washington dated April 14, 2006, US embassy to Kiev
said that Tymoshenko could have been associated with Ukraine's crime
kingpin. The embassy referred to Internet news site Ukrainska Pravda
(UP) which reported about the illegal destruction of the Security
Service of Ukraine (SBU) files on Mogilievich upon order by then senior
Tymoshenko, who could have been thus deleting sensitive data on her
shady business with Mogilievich, as well as her illegal surveillance
of now president-elect Poroshenko.
Yulia Tymoshenko leapt to international fame in 2004 as she joined
the so-called Orange Revolution: Ukraine's citizens took to streets
back then in Kiev backing Western-favorite Viktor Yushchenko in his
appeal against the results of a presidential election. She served two
terms as prime minister under President Yushchenko and narrowly lost
to Viktor Yanukovych in the 2010 presidential race. After he came
to power Tymoshenko got a seven-year prison sentence for allegedly
negotiating a Ukraine-Russia deal on conditions unfavourable for
Ukraine. She was released from jail by a parliament decree on February
22, just before the Maidan standoff reached its deadly climax.
It was reported earlier by Wikileaks that US diplomats called the
newly-elected president of Ukraine a "disgraceful oligarch," with
his name mentioned no less than 100 times in the secret files. He is
generally pictured as an unpopular politician and in the first place
businessman who managed to gain strings in whatever government. Sheila
Guoltni, US deputy Ambassador to Ukraine, told the US Department of
State on May 26, 2006 that the image of Poroshenko was discredited by
"credible accusations of corruption" - the issue that at some point
led him to a row with ex Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: A. Papazian
18:21 * 12.06.14
Two diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks Public Library on
US Diplomacy reveal that Ukraine's president-elect Petr Poroshenko
served as an informant for United States' State Department, the Voice
of Russia reports.
A confidential message from the US Embassy in Kiev dating back to April
29, 2006 mentions the now widely-known confectionary tycoon twice.
Back then Poroshenko reportedly handed to the US Embassy in Kiev
inside information on the plotting a coalition government in 2006,
Wikileaks say.
The message was intended for Ambassador John Herbst to update him
on how things stood in April 2006, Poroshenko describing himself
as an insider from the party Nasha Ukrayina (Our Ukraine), a bloc
associated with former President Viktor Yushchenko, passionately
welcomed by the western leaders.
The diplomat, however, questioned the authenticity of Poroshenko's
message suspecting it to be part of backdoor games aimed at arresting
once Yushchenko's allies - Yuliya Tymoshenko and Aleksandr Turchynov
until recently - acting Ukraine's President.
Who is Poroshenko - the figure to use his might and power to wind down
the deadly standoff in the country's southeast or a mere businessman
who skillfully pulls his strings - is still debated.
Other Wikileaks documents that came recently to light show that
Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko might have cooperated
with mafia boss Seymon Mogilievich when she headed United Energy
Systems.
In a message to Washington dated April 14, 2006, US embassy to Kiev
said that Tymoshenko could have been associated with Ukraine's crime
kingpin. The embassy referred to Internet news site Ukrainska Pravda
(UP) which reported about the illegal destruction of the Security
Service of Ukraine (SBU) files on Mogilievich upon order by then senior
Tymoshenko, who could have been thus deleting sensitive data on her
shady business with Mogilievich, as well as her illegal surveillance
of now president-elect Poroshenko.
Yulia Tymoshenko leapt to international fame in 2004 as she joined
the so-called Orange Revolution: Ukraine's citizens took to streets
back then in Kiev backing Western-favorite Viktor Yushchenko in his
appeal against the results of a presidential election. She served two
terms as prime minister under President Yushchenko and narrowly lost
to Viktor Yanukovych in the 2010 presidential race. After he came
to power Tymoshenko got a seven-year prison sentence for allegedly
negotiating a Ukraine-Russia deal on conditions unfavourable for
Ukraine. She was released from jail by a parliament decree on February
22, just before the Maidan standoff reached its deadly climax.
It was reported earlier by Wikileaks that US diplomats called the
newly-elected president of Ukraine a "disgraceful oligarch," with
his name mentioned no less than 100 times in the secret files. He is
generally pictured as an unpopular politician and in the first place
businessman who managed to gain strings in whatever government. Sheila
Guoltni, US deputy Ambassador to Ukraine, told the US Department of
State on May 26, 2006 that the image of Poroshenko was discredited by
"credible accusations of corruption" - the issue that at some point
led him to a row with ex Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: A. Papazian