On March 5 Ukrainian billionaire and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Ihor Kolomoyskiy attended a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada’s Special Committee for Privatization and spoke of the violations in the privatization of state companies in 2004.
He admitted paying bribes to Leonid Kuchma, then president, through his
son-in-law Victor Pinchuk. “The one who gave a bribe and was the first
one to report it doesn’t take the blame,” Kolomoyskiy said to the
committee.
