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DONORS OF PARTIES. BY NAME.
Who financed the parties in the last parliamentary elections? Previously the CEC published parties' financial reports. But it was incomplete and did not contain information about the parties' donors.
The program "Skhemy" (a joint project of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the First National) filed a request with the CEC and obtained access to a detailed report. These are 5 folders of several hundred pages each. "Opposition Bloc" Almost 13 million hryvnias were provided to the "Opposition Bloc" by People's Deputy Vadym Novynskyi, an ex-Party of Regions member and businessman who received Ukrainian citizenship during Yanukovych's time. Forbes estimated his wealth at nearly 2 billion dollars.
His declaration states that in Ukraine Vadym Novynskyi earned 2013- in the year 5 million hryvnias. But his main income actually came not from Ukraine but from the Republic of Cyprus – that was 159 million hryvnias. Novynskyi also earned in Russia – 20 thousand hryvnias. "Radical Party" People's Deputy Oleksiy Kyrychenko donated 3 million and 300 thousand hryvnias to the election fund of Oleh Lyashko's "Radical Party." The donor's declaration for Oleksiy Kyrychenko shows that he could not have afforded this. For example, in 2011 year Mr. Kyrychenko earned not millions but only 19 thousand hryvnias. Since then his position has not changed. Before becoming a deputy he was head of sales at LLC "ING LSK-BUD." Mr. Kyrychenko claims that sponsors provided the money to him, but he is not ready to say which ones (see the full response in the report).
"Batkivshchyna" In the report of the "Batkivshchyna" party one can see that most people transferred approximately the same amounts to its election fund – about 149 thousand hryvnias each. In total, equal parts amounted to more than 107 million hryvnias. The main donors were mostly from Kyiv and Kyiv region.
"People's Front" 9 current deputies directed voluntary contributions totaling 1 million 200 thousand hryvnias to the election fund of the "People's Front," chaired by Arseniy Yatseniuk. Amounts transferred ranged from 50 to almost 150 thousand hryvnias. Some donated twice. Among the donors: Tetyana Donets, Andriy Ivanchuk, Serhiy Pashynskyi, Mykola Martynenko, Pavlo Pynzenyk, Volodymyr Shkvarilyuk. A number of these donors in the new convocation of the Verkhovna Rada headed parliamentary committees. For many, the amount they contributed reached over half of their official annual income.
"Self Reliance Union" The "Self Reliance Union" party, which publicly declared an open report for the parliamentary elections, turned out to be not so open. Earlier "Self Reliance" reported that it received a largest contribution of 3 million hryvnias. But in the report to the Central Election Commission the maximum contribution turned out to be only half a million. The party also did not name the surname of the main donor in both its comment and written response to inquiries. "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" The Petro Poroshenko Bloc party has no voluntary contributions. All financial information is recorded only in the "party's own funds" column – that is 93 million hryvnias. Overall, who exactly and how much transferred funds to parties can be learned if these are "voluntary contributions of citizens" (in the report provided to the CEC). However, the main source of funding for most political forces (except "Batkivshchyna") is "party's own funds." And in this section of the report there are no surnames. Current Ukrainian legislation allows not to break down such income. To date in our country no one can reliably know the names of donors of a particular party. Unlike in civilized countries, in Ukraine such information remains closed to the public. A bill on transparency of political party financing still lies in parliament. Among the authors is Petro Poroshenko, and the party of the same name did not provide any surname of its donor for the official report to the Central Election Commission. This bill will soon be a year old. Serhiy Andrushko, the CHESNO movement
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