Former Russian State Duma member Ilya Ponomarev claims Russia’s acquisition of Ukrainian eurobonds was a scheme to bribe the family of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, accused by Ukraine of treason so that he did not sign the Association Agreement with the EU.
It was Yanukovych and his family who benefited from the eurobonds deal and their gain was $1 billion, Ponomarev said during interrogation at court hearings on the Yanukovych treason case in Kyiv, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
