No evidence has emerged that Perry explicitly pressured Ukrainian officials to comply with Trump’s push to investigate a Ukraine natural gas company where Biden’s son Hunter was a board member. But there are no allegations that Perry improperly arranged natural gas deals to benefit oil friends. ADCorruption in Ukraine can make doing business there dodgy, and Ukraine lacks the giant natural gas terminals and other facilities to import much natural gas shipments directly, energy experts say. That’s made it less of a targeted customer for Western natural gas sales than, for example, Poland. ADThe U.S. has indicted associates of Giuliani on allegations they illegally tried to funnel cash to Republican politicians, using a natural gas company as a front.

Source: Washington Post October 19, 2019 20:03 UTC