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Businessman Vasyl Veselyi stated that at the moment when, according to the version of the Ukrainian Pravda journalist Mykhailo Tkach, he allegedly met with businessman Oleksandr Tsukerman in Kyiv, he and his family were actually outside Ukraine. He spoke about this in an interview with Ukrainian News.
"At the time when, according to the material's version, I was allegedly in Tsukerman's office, I was abroad with my family," Veselyi told journalists.
According to him, he has documents confirming his stay abroad at that time, and he is ready to provide them for verification.
"I am not asking people to take my word for it. I propose to verify the documents," the businessman emphasized.
Veselyi also denied the fact of the meeting and dialogue mentioned in Tkach's material. According to the businessman, in this dialogue he was attributed discussions about body armor, the company Carpathian Naftohim, and influence on appointments at the state-owned Sense Bank.
Veselyi stated that he did not discuss with Tsukerman the composition of Sense Bank's supervisory board.
"I never discussed with Tsukerman the composition of Sense Bank's supervisory board, did not shape its makeup, and generally did not have such conversations with him," he claims.
Veselyi also denied discussing these issues with the person referred to as Yurko in the material and rejected the assertion of his supposed role as a ' supervisor' over Sense Bank. He questioned the origin of the materials disclosed by Tkach.
"If I was not in the specified place, then where did the dialogue that Mykhailo Tkach read aloud as a real conversation with my participation come from?" Veselyi said.
According to him, information about his possible influence on the bank is being spread, in particular, through public statements by politicians.
He commented on the conflict with the head of the parliamentary temporary investigative committee (TSC), MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak. Veselyi noted that he has no claims against the TSC as an body, but criticizes the use by its head of information whose reliability, according to him, is refuted by documents.
"Let the evidence be published. Let it be established where this dialogue came from. Let a legal assessment be provided on the use of unverified information by a public official," Veselyi stated.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Василь Веселий заперечив зустріч із Цукерманом і вплив на Sense Bank". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Gordon.
