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Business partner of Ihor Kolomoisky Ihor Palytsia, who is leading the party “For the Future” into local elections, denies receiving the oligarch’s money. And the party’s top candidate in Kyiv, Serhiy Husovskyi, does not answer directly whether Kolomoisky finances the political force, – Bihus.Info.
The answer is important to understand whether the party’s representatives will act locally in the interests of the oligarch. This is discussed in the Bihus.Info report.
“Kolomoisky has nothing to do with the party or the party’s financing,” claims the head of “For the Future,” Ihor Palytsia. “The party is funded by party members because it includes sufficiently strong and financially capable people.”
Despite Palytsia’s denials about Kolomoisky’s money and influence, the oligarch’s channel provided powerful media support to the party “For the Future” ahead of the local elections. Ihor Palytsia is a regular guest on talk shows and interviews, as well as the subject of campaign news on the channel 1+1.
At the same time, Palytsia refused to name the key sponsors, referring to the fact that this information will be available in official reports. “Look, I didn’t have time to deal with the campaign’s financial documents. Now, after the campaign is over, this report will be provided,” Palytsia said.
Bihus.Info journalists have repeatedly shown that official party financing reports often use schemes to legalize cash inflows from nominee (front) persons. That means the real sponsors of election campaigns remain hidden. The editorial team found similar schemes, for example, in the reports of Servant of the People.
So, in the currently available report for “For the Future” – the party has only one sponsor listed – the company “Milenium 2018”. That firm was founded by the director of another company that at one time belonged directly to Kolomoisky and owns a namesake business center where the oligarch’s office is located.
The party’s Kyiv mayoral candidate Serhiy Husovskyi, for his part, neither confirmed nor denied financing from Kolomoisky. “Ihor Palytsia invited me to lead the movement in Kyiv. Our conversation concerned [two questions]: how the team is formed and the ideology. And to the question: how exactly is it financed? – it is financed from party sources. Period.”
Earlier Husovskyi said he did not invest his own money in the campaign. That means someone else is financing his current run in politics.
Recall that the party “For the Future” is headed by long-time business partner and friend of Kolomoisky, Ihor Palytsia. Their Kyiv offices are located in the same building. And it was Palytsia who managed Ukrnafta at the time when Kolomoisky, by his own words, paid 5 million dollars in monthly bribes for the opportunity to control that state company.
Read about the dubious figures on the Servants’ list here. And about the defector on Palchevskyi’s team — here.
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