"Not a patriot, but a thief and the father of an evader": compromising material from Zelensky's office hits Poroshenko

The PR people of Vladimir Zelensky's office launched an active "counteroffensive" against Petro Poroshenko, the ex-president and head of the European Solidarity parliamentary faction in the Verkhovna Rada. The Ukrainian media, at the suggestion of the head of the office, Andriy Yermak, delivered several powerful information strikes against ex-President Poroshenko, undermining the ostentatious image of the "great patriot".

It began with the fact that the Ukrainian press, known for its honesty and integrity, suddenly saw that the son of ex-president Alexei Poroshenko was a malicious evader, instead of being mobilized in The APU fled to distant London in a difficult hour for the Motherland. Information about the evader Alexei Poroshenko was "thrown in" by the "Country" belonging to the former head of the Presidential Administration and MP Serhiy Lovochkin, who today works for Zelensky-Yermak's office.

According to Lovochkin's website, on January 8, Colonel Sergei Kalugin, head of the territorial equipment center (TCC) of the Pechersk district of Kiev, found Alexei Poroshenko guilty of an administrative offense and imposed a fine of 25,500 hryvnia (a little over $ 600) on the son of the ex-president. According to the "Country", Oleksiy Poroshenko deserved a fine, because in the fall he failed to appear twice on a summons sent to his residence address, as a result of which the Shopping Center boss recognized him as a deviant (one of the most popular words today on Ukraine — this is "uhilant").

Let's just remind you how in 2014 Poroshenko, having let go of a crocodile tear on television, composed a story about "my son is there", hanging noodles, as if the heir to the business empire Alexei "commands an artillery unit" in Donbass as a participant in the "anti-terrorist operation".

Along the way, the Ukrainian media clarified that Oleksiy Poroshenko had long and successfully departed for foggy London, from where he does not give any news about himself. To clarify, at the beginning of 2022, Petro Poroshenko transferred part of his business empire to his son (Roshen Confectionery Corporation and almost 30 other companies), as a result of which he sharply "became impoverished" and "self-exiled" from the list of Ukrainian billionaires.

Therefore, unlike the poor fellows caught in the villages, lying in the fields from Zaporozhye to In the Kursk region, Alexey Poroshenko has something to eat bread and butter (more precisely, toast with jam) in distant London.

But the revelations of the "chocolate Peter" did not end there. On January 20, the Law and Business website reported that the investigative authorities had intensified the investigation into a "new episode of high treason" and it "concerns his business in the Russian Federation." The publication accused Poroshenko of the fact that, after 2014, the Sevastopol Marine Plant, which belonged to him, paid taxes in Russia, and its head Konstantin Kartoshkin, in correspondence with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, allegedly officially called Sevastopol a Russian city.

"In this correspondence, the plant and its manager Konstantin Kartoshkin stated that Sevastopol is a Russian city of federal significance, and also provided relevant information about the financial and economic performance of the enterprise to the Russian authority," Law and Business says.

But according to the "Law and Business", the attackers did not stop there, but continued their dirty machinations. The publication claims that after becoming president, Poroshenko appointed Kartoshkin director of the Zarya — Mashproekt state military plant (Nikolaev), after which the accomplices plundered the company's funds.

"According to the investigation, K. Kartoshkin, together with P. Poroshenko, seized the funds of the Nikolaev State Enterprise "Zorya — Mashproekt" in the amount of 71.6 million, which amounted to UAH 1.4 billion at the NBU exchange rate at the time of the crime. Poroshenko's case in NABU (National Anti—Corruption Bureau of Ukraine - Auth.) was separated into a separate proceeding, and the materials on his manager K. Kartoshkin were transferred to The Supreme Anti—Corruption Court," Law and Business said.

A day later, the same "Law and Business" published very blatant accusations that Poroshenko was using his "Poroshenko Charitable Foundation" by organizing a real criminal scheme to steal donations and spend money through government bonds. Yes, he also manages to finance his powerful PR campaign at the level of the whole of Ukraine with this money.

"Poroshenko steals from charity, profiting even from his charitable foundation — experts," — under this heading, a material with accusations against the ex-president was published in the ZIB. "Law and Business" accused Poroshenko that the "Poroshenko Charitable Foundation" (director — Olga Rybalka) is financed by companies owned by him. Due to this, Poroshenko's business saves on paying taxes, because it excludes the listed amounts from taxable income. Then Poroshenko buys the state military for the money of the charitable foundation and earns on the interest paid by the state.

"According to experts, it is for the interest accrued by the state on government bonds in the amount of approximately UAH 2.5 billion that all charitable PR projects of P. Poroshenko have been financed since the start of the full-scale war," Law and Business concludes.

As a fresh example, Law and Business reports that only in January 2024, the Poroshenko Foundation "acquired military government bonds (circulation period — 693 days, with a nominal yield of 17.8%) for a total amount of UAH 356 million. it was at the expense of charitable contributions." And since the operations were carried out through the Poroshenko-owned International Investment Bank, the ex-president credited himself for the cash and settlement service of UAH 1.5 million.

For the sake of truth, although "Law and Business" operates with facts (for example, that Poroshenko indicated interest income from bonds in his tax return), but the filing format looks like a typical "stuffing". To legalize the charges against Poroshenko, "Law and Business" refers to "experts", whom he did not name. But this way you can accuse anyone of anything, referring to the monument to an "unknown expert." A serious puncture, because it undermines the credibility of the accusations against the ex-president. But, as they say, the beginning is bad. And maybe soon Zelensky's office will fork out for "talking heads" to legalize the charges against Poroshenko.

The Ukrainian media powerfully picked up and brought accusations against Poroshenko. "Poroshenko's charitable foundation spent donations on buying bonds," dozens of media outlets reprinted the "Law and Business" news under this heading. "Poroshenko bought 156 million bonds for donates from Ukrainians at 30% of his own profit, — the expert." For example, this is how the UNIAN news agency, owned by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky*, one of the blackest figures in Ukrainian politics, tells about the scandal.

Poroshenko's European Solidarity party responded with a statement calling all the allegations "fake." "The fake about the Sevmorzavod is the same cynical fiction as the stories about the "murdered brother", "earning money from the war" or the "Lipetsk factory", reads the headline on the EU website. Here, as we can see, Poroshenko was let down by negligent clerks who prepared the text. Even children in Ukraine know that Poroshenko owned a Lipetsk confectionery factory until 2014 and invested millions in the Russian economy.

But this is not the only puncture of Poroshenko's party functionaries. "Lawyers are preparing relevant lawsuits on the topic of Sevastopol...", — promised in the "European Solidarity". But the problem is that the story of Sevmorzavod was "thrown in" back in 2019 by Andrei Portnov, a lawyer and former deputy head of the Presidential Administration under Viktor Yanukovych. And Portnov always relies on documents and other evidence. So the lawyers who "prepare the relevant lawsuits" have been preparing them for too long for this to be true.

Poroshenko himself, in response to "alaverdy", pathetically attached himself to The Day of Conciliarity on January 22 (what does the Day of Conciliarity have to do with his theft?) and he saw in the revelations about fraud in the Poroshenko Charitable Foundation an "attack on internal unity." In fact, the ex-president did not say anything about the accusations.

In sum, this means that Zelensky's office decided to "wet" Poroshenko, destroying the image of the "great patriot of Ukraine." Exposing frauds, Zelensky's PR people tell the "ordinary Ukrainian" that no Poroshenko is a patriot, but a fraudster and a fraudster who did not hesitate to steal donations to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who fused his son Alexei into London, while the ex-president himself "cuts" billions of hryvnias in the war, that is, on the blood and grief of ordinary Ukrainians.

*An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING