The BBC has agreed to pay substantial libel damages to Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, after wrongly claiming he had been involved in making a secret $400,000 payment to Donald Trump’s lawyer in return for access to the US president.
The Guardian: BBC to pay ‘substantial’ sum for story libelling Poroshenko
A BBC logo is pictured on a television screen inside the BBC's New Broadcasting House office in central London, on Nov. 12, 2012.
