The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is transferring several original pages from the so-called “black books” of the former Party of Regions of Ukraine to the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.
“Today we turn over to NABU several original pages of the so-called “black books” of the Party of Regions. It’s important to squash and wipe away this dirt,” Avakov wrote on his Twitter page, attaching photocopies of several of the handwritten pages.
Former First Deputy of Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) Viktor Trepak said he had turned over the documents confirming illegal payments made by the Part of Regions to a number of former and current high-ranking officials. He said then that the pages were the so-called black accounting books of the Party of Regions listing payments amounting to about $2 billion.
NABU launched an investigation based on Trepak’s statement pursuant to Part 4 of Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (offering, promising or giving excessive profit to government officials).
According to the documents, the Party of Regions financed a number of political parties, including those represented in the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th Convocation, chief of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office Yuriy Lutsenko said.
