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24 millions of hryvnias for a song festival tried to be siphoned from the budget by Serhiy Berezenko from the UDAR party (BPP)
Independent MP Volodymyr Parasyuk claims that the budget article allocating 24 million UAH for the song festival “Be Free” was lobbied by one of the BPP Solidarity leaders, Serhiy Berezenko.
This was reported, without mincing words, by the National Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine.
"There is a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada whose surname is Berezenko. He is the same Berezenko who ran and won in Chernihiv elections."
Now to the funny-scary story. In the budget draft there was a line to hold the festival “Be Free” costing over 24 million UAH (1 million USD), — Parasyuk wrote on his Facebook page. — One of the euro-optimists, a member of the BPP faction, raised this issue and harshly criticized Yatsenyuk. Yatsenyuk immediately shifted responsibility to the State Administration for Affairs, and everyone knows that this is the President's agency, and in our case it corresponds to deputy Berezenko, who is also from BPP. Well, after a storm of criticism, Yatsenyuk scrapped this line and redirected the money to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. What happens next? And then the thief has a coach on his head. Berezenko, like a detonated defect, rushes to Groysman to clarify why the money for the festival “Be Free” isn’t being provided. And his argument is simply iron: “I need this money, I promised to give it back.”
"The positive is that Berezenko did not steal 1 million USD. And what’s scary is that this is reality. And there are not a dozen more such festivals in this budget," the MP stated.
25 of January 2015 of the year, late at night, the Verkhovna Rada approved the Law “On the State Budget for 2016 year.” Deputies received it only around three o’clock at night. It was then that, while studying the document, Mustafa Nayyem wrote on his Facebook page: “Third hour of the night. The state budget has been issued. Fun. For example, one million dollars (!) (24 million UAH) is allocated for the All-Ukrainian Patriotic Singing Festival ‘Be Free!’ For comparison, 8 million UAH (~ $ 330 thousand) are allocated to support the work of the High Qualification Commission of Judges.” After the publicity, the government removed this article from the state budget draft.
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