Poroshenko's deputies continue to do business in Russia after a full-scale invasion, - expert

Vitaly Kotlyar, a deputy of the Kremenchug City Council from European Solidarity, is a co-owner of the Russian company Dormash Group LLC, registered in 2014.

Kotlyar’s company was also spotted at events in occupied Crimea, where its representatives discussed with Russians improving the energy efficiency of the occupied peninsula.

Blogger and political expert Sergei Ivanov talks about this.

“Vitaly Kotlyar, a deputy from Eurosolidarity of the Kremenchug City Council, cooperates with the aggressor state. In particular, Kotlyar declared part of the corporate rights in the Dormash Group company operating in Russia. Deputy Poroshenko owns half of the corporate rights in this company,” says Sergei Ivanov, citing data from the NAPC declaration register.

According to Ivanov, the office of Kotlyar’s company is located in Belgorod, Russia. Also, the expert reports, in the spring of 2017, deputy Poroshenko’s company took part in an exhibition in occupied Simferopol, where, together with the occupiers, representatives of the company discussed increasing the energy efficiency of Crimea.

“In this regard, I have a proposal to Peter Alekseevich. As it turned out, you have an excellent, talented and, most importantly, rich team that gives money to the aggressor for killing Ukrainians. Wouldn’t it be logical to ask your deputies to transfer funds to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and not to the Russian army? Maybe this will somehow simplify the whole scheme? They will not warm the occupiers, so you will need to collect less. Because it turns out that while you are “transferring drones to the front,” your henchmen are paying the aggressor for the missiles that are used to bomb Ukrainian cities,” Ivanov sums up.

As previously reported, Poroshenko was charged with treason. He is suspected of supporting the activities of terrorist organizations with the assistance of the Russian leadership in 2014-2015, because Ukraine abandoned coal from South Africa in favor of coal from enterprises in the occupied territories, paying money for coal to terrorists from ORDLO.

Earlier, the leader of the OPZZH, Viktor Medvedchuk, who was detained by law enforcement officers, confirmed the organized scheme with coal from ORDLO and told the details.

“Virtually the entire top of the state apparatus was involved in this, starting with the President and ending with ministers, law enforcement officers and those who directly implemented this scheme,” Medvedchuk said then.