Prosecutors suspect Poroshenko of involvement in financing Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014-2015 through the purchase of coal in the Donbas. “The court ruled to seize the property of the suspect, which belongs to him by right of ownership,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement Thursday. Poroshenko’s allies said the move was a personal act of revenge revenge by incumbent President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “A weak president, who prioritizes personal revenge, manipulates prosecutors, manipulates the investigation and manipulates justice to deal with opponents,” said Vladimir Aryev, a deputy from Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party. Poroshenko also previously was forced to sell two TV channels after the adoption of a law on oligarchs.

Source: ABC News January 07, 2022 23:14 UTC