Imagine that one day people elect you as a president
- And why do our politicians come to power every time
and make the same mistakes?
The majority in parliament is yours,
your childhood friend is the head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
- Because they are "great" mathematicians,
they know how to subtract, divide and multiply their own!
"The General Prosecutor is one hundred percent your man"
And if it was possible to send me there for a week, I would show them.
You can change the country
and the rules that were played before you.
- F*ck corteges, f*ck your benefits, f*ck your summer cottages,
f*ck everybody!
So that a simple teacher can live like a president!
And a president lives like a teacher!
And what will you do?
95 Offshore
We did it together!
Thank you Kvartal 95.
This is a story about the actor and head of the Studio 95th Kvartal,
who played the president in the series and won in real life.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy's successful show business was created in Ukraine,
but is hidden in a network of offshore companies.
Why does the president need that?
A new leak of documents - millions of files from registrars of island firms -
sheds light on the secrets of politicians and businessmen from around the world.
In particular, the Ukrainian president and his business partners.
Thanks to these documents,
we were able to find unknown offshore companies
and real estate of key people of Kvartal 95.
And to establish a hidden connection - for millions of dollars
between Zelenskyy and the scandalous Ukrainian oligarch.
These findings force us to look differently at the Ukrainian president,
who came to power, speculating on the film image of
an honest and modest president of common people.
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
This square of ​​the 95th block
is a popular place in Kryvyi Rih.
The team of the Club of the Funny and Clever was named in the honor of this square -
Kvartal 95.
Its head, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, lived in a high-rise Soviet building, close to the square.
He finished school number 95.
- He graduated from school with two B's,
graduated from the institute, he is a lawyer by education,
he is not an artist by education…
he is a lawyer
He always helped people,
always attended school activities.
We had a modest family,
we lived modestly
until dad got the doctorate degree,
and he achieved everything,
so he was not raised in a rich family.
And in an ordinary working family.
- I was born in an intelligent family,
then kindergarten, school, no work, no money and I went.
Cool team
Kvartal 95, the city of Kryvyi Rih
The holiday is coming, the holiday is coming,
the holiday is moving away, the holiday is moving away.
After several successful performances,
Kvartal 95 left the Club of Funny and Clever.
Then in an interview Volodymyr Zelenskyy said
that the management of the show does not allow artists to earn in other programs
and to act in films.
And for this purpose,
the Studio Kvartal 95, soon appeared instead of the Club of Funny and Clever.
He created his own company,
and how many people does he have in the company?
Almost 500 people.
So he knows how to run a company and how to deal with people.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Shefirs brothers Serhii and Borys
made their first contributions to the Ukrainian company.
All together they moved from Kryvyi Rih to Kyiv,
lived five-six people in rented apartments.
The newly created company developed rapidly.
My name is Artem Vakaliuk.
I have been researching the cinema and television market for more than 10 years.
Kvartal
from the beginning was not a company that focused exclusively on business
just to make money.
It was more of a family business.
Why family, because everyone was like relatives and friends.
Everyone worked not just to get paid,
but everyone built it as a small part of their own business.
Later, the business, successfully built in Ukraine
for film and television production,
will bring the owners a wild popularity and millions of fortunes.
When journalists receive a large number of documents
to be thoroughly investigated, they will unite.
So it happened this time as well.
More than 600 colleagues
from all over the world worked on the Pandora Papers project for a year.
Among the millions of documents of offshore registrars,
we noticed the names of the leaders of our country.
Ivan Bakanov, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine,
Serhii Shefir, the chief aide to the President,
and, in fact, the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are here.
London, Great Britain
The research, as it has long been in Ukraine,
has led to Great Britain -
we will often go back there during our story.
So we consistently contacted the journalist Luke Harding
from The Guardian.
The new papers
show that companies from the offshore network of owners of Kvartal 95
were used to buy three apartments in London.
This is just one of the findings of Pandora Papers
and a little we will show you this luxury property.
But first let's look at the business path of the Ukrainian president -
his partners and the main buyer of comedy shows.
9 YEARS BEFORE PANDORA PAPERS
The popular Kvartal 95 goes to TV channel 1+1.
Their shows and programs literally capture the TV.
Good good evening comes suddenly!
If you have nothing to do, my friend
1+1 just bought out the Kvartal 95, giving them more favorable terms of cooperation,
more attractive prices, more creativity
in their own words.
And here is Ihor Kolomoiskyi -
a scandalously famous oligarch and key owner of 1+1 TV channel.
He will later support Zelenskyy and the team
not only as showmen but also as politicians.
Today, Kolomoiskyi is a person of interest in investigations in Ukraine,
Great Britain and the United States.
The cases concern the withdrawal and laundering of money
from the once largest commercial institution -
Privatbank.
Once in a while it was a whole group "Privat" formed around him,
which includes numerous enterprises
in the fields of aviation, metallurgy, fuel industry, finance and media.
This is the fourth estate!
Well, a TV channel is better than a parliament.
In parliament, you can cooperate with everyone.
Is it actually a lever?
The ability to show the truth.
What is it for you?
This makes me feel secure.
Because I can say my opinion.
The parties prefer not to disclose the terms of cooperation 1+1 with Kvartal 95
Only general things.
You have a contract with Kvartal 95 until 2022.
Yes. They earn well, they have an annual contract of 10 to 20 million.
As we found out, millions from Kolomoiskyi
went not only to the accounts of Ukrainian companies
that once registered Zelenskyy with friends.
The money went where there was warmth and less taxes.
That year, when Kvartal began to cooperate with the oligarch,
key people of the company registered a number of companies
on distant islands.
Why do people use offshores?
To understand the nature of this tool,
we met with those who deal with offshores on a daily basis.
My name is Maxym Hrekov
and I am an asset structuring expert.
I help business owners bring order to their corporate business structure.
Very often with the help of international elements.
For example, offshore companies are very
convenient to use for some,
well, so to speak, money transfers.
They are still very often called wallet companies.
That is, you can transfer money from any company to any company.
With conditionally any purpose of payment.
In Pandora Papers we found more than a dozen such companies
in Zelenskyy's close circle.
The network was assisted by
the offshore registrar Fidelity
and Ukrainian lawyer Yurii Azarov.
This person's signature is on all key documents.
But finding him is quite difficult.
At the address of his law firm - another firm,
the phone is off,
and at the place of registration he was last seen a year and a half ago.
Excuse my name is Elena Loginova, I'm a journalist.
I am looking for...
How? Elena?
Loginova
I'm looking for Azarov Yurii Oleksiiovych
Okay, he is not living here
His company - Azarov and partners is registered here.
I do not know.
Can I leave a phone number and you tell him?
We do not meet with him
We do not keep in touch
That is, he may have used your address somehow
Maybe, Maybe
Okay, I'll be very grateful if you tell him. Sorry, we bothered you
Finally the lawyer of the Kvartal called us back.
In the meantime, let's go back to London,
where a local expert will tell us more about the offshore world.
At the heart of the network is the previously unknown company
Maltex Multicapital.
It is equally divided between the companies of Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
Serhii and Borys Shefirs brothers
and Andrii Yakovliev.
The trust declaration was signed by the current head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov.
His company was the nominal owner of Maltex.
A trust declaration is a document
that records the relationship between the nominal owner of the company
and its real owner.
- Why are such documents signed?
- Usually, to preserve the confidentiality of the real owner of the company.
That is, the nominal will be visible in the register, and the real owner will not be known.
And this trust declaration is submitted to the bank.
Well, basically, it cannot be seen anywhere else.
It is usually in the safe of the real owner in the bank.
That is, the nominal owner of the key offshore of Kvartal 95
was Ivan Bakanov's firm.
The names of the real owners were safely hidden in the vault.
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Did you watch this movie?
Servant of the people.
The film is good, they thought about creating this film a long time ago.
But he did not think that he would become a president,
and then looked at all this that is happening in Ukraine,
and thought - he should try...
In the fall of 2015
on TV channel 1 + 1 was the premiere of the first season of the series "Servant of the People"
produced by Studio Kvartal 95.
In the film, a poor history teacher is elected as a President of Ukraine.
The main role is played by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Kvartal 95 advertised the new series "Servant of the People"
This is his joint project with TV channel 1 + 1.
The main character, played by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is just a teacher
who suddenly became the President of Ukraine.
And we do not give a f*ck, noone gives a f*ck, the very big f*ck came to us all!
And if I was sent there for one week if it were possible,
I would show them.
F*ck corteges, f*ck your benefits, f*ck your summer cottages,
f*ck everybody!
So that a simple teacher can live like a president!
And a president lives like a teacher!
Strongly made story,
from a dramatic point of view!
On the other hand, all the troubles that we actually had in the state were raised lightly and so sarcastically and ironically.
Therefore, only as an art project it looked
good, normally.
Because of this, the ratings are great,
because of this, people just watched it as a fairy tale, let's say
how everything can be, if not for those powerful people who are always corrupt in our country and everything else.
When you learned that Zelenskyy is going to the elections,
he sells you his own product?
I'm telling you that in 2017,
In 2017?
That he had such thoughts.
I suspect that he thought in 2015,
when he was making the film
and then by the reaction to the ratings,
by the reaction of those in power...
The third season of Servant of the People
was shown during the presidential race
between Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
in the spring of 2019.
Good morning, Mr. President!
See the continuation of the story of the People's President.
Servant of the People 3 from March 27
Petia, Lozhkin blew up my phone there.
He said it could not be shown.
The Servant?
Yes! Still at the stage of production.
It should not be released because you will be in trouble.
President Holoborodko was independent from the oligarchs
and fought against them.
At the same time, President Zelenskyy is tied to the real oligarch with dirty money from the past.
And that he is a puppet of Kolomoiskyi.
Which Kolomoiskyi's puppet?
What does Kolomoiskyi have to do with him anyway?
He hands over his products and receives money for it.
And that is it.
But if we take a closer look at how the Kvartal business is built,
we will see that the products are created and shown mainly in Ukraine.
At the same time, transactions are made through foreign companies.
Accordingly, taxes on these transactions
do not go to the Ukrainian budget.
Pandora Papers show that
at least once in 2012,
an offshore company affiliated with Kolomoiskyi's 1 + 1 group
paid more than $1 million to Zelenskyy and the friends' offshore firm
from the British Virgin Islands.
SVT Films is half owned by Maltex,
around which the offshore part of Kvartal 95 is built.
The funds went to the television program
"Make a Comedian Laugh" produced by Zelenskyy’s company.
Figures about "Make a Comedian Laugh"?
Very nice figures.
Super-powerful, super-successful
content that the show goes with
above-average performance on the channel.
.It is one of the few formats,
Ukrainian formats, which is so successfully distributed abroad.
Group 1 + 1 did not explain the terms of the contract
with Kvartal 95, referring to a trade secret.
In search of an understanding of Zelenskyy's and Kolomoiskyi's business relations,
we came across information about millions of transfers
between their companies,
which was published during the election campaign.
Neither Zelenskyy nor Kolomoiskyi commented on it then.
Now, having gained access to secret offshore documents,
journalists are convinced of the authenticity of at least part of the scheme
of the 40 million transfer,
which in 2012 was received by the firms of Zelenskyy and friends.
Kvartal produces quite a lot,
and therefore the order of figures will be quite large.
This is a group that produces a lot of content, both serial and television
Why were 40 million transferred?
We can define any
purpose, basically if we talk about offshore.
This transaction will be checked by the bank.
In 2012,
many banks were not interested in the essence of things at all.
And if the bank is yours at all?
Moreover, there may be no questions.
According to journalists,
the transfer of funds went through the Cyprus branch of Privatbank - owned by Ihor Kolomoiskyi,
the same through which the oligarch could launder millions.
New documents show
that at least one of the companies of Kvartal 95’s heads
had an account in the Cyprus branch of Kolomoiskyi Bank.
We also saw the real owners of
a dozen secret offshores
and learned why the oligarch transferred millions to Zelenskyy.
Kyiv, Ukraine
April 19, 2019
You and I voted for one Poroshenko,
and elected another.
It's true. Because there are two Poroshenkos.
The first - a great speaker,
specialist,
financier, economist,
has knowledge in everything.
It usually appears when there are cameras.
But when the cameras are turned off, another Petro appears,
the second.
The first Petro Poroshenko
says: "I transferred the business into a blind trust",
and the second increases his wealth by 82 times in a year.
Tell me, please, so,
maybe we will transfer the budget of Ukraine to a blind trust?
Maybe it works fine?
Criticizing the previous President of Ukraine,
Zelenskyy himself did not speak during the debate
about the trust declaration, which hides the offshore structure of his business.
And the partners on an offshore network didn't mention anything as well.
A little later, the co-owner of Kvartal 95,
Serhii Shefir, stated
that despite the fact that Zelenskyy had left the business,
he would still "receive dividends from royalties,
some brands remained on him."
We met with a former member of Zelenskyy's team,
who also has his own opinion on presidential offshore.
I, Ruslan Riaboshapka, co-founder of the Center for National Sustainability and Development.
I was the General Prosecutor in 2019-2020.
Do you think there is a conflict of interest
for Volodymyr Zelenskyy in that he
declares offshore, receives dividends from business
I don't know if he makes money out of offshore
In my opinion, this is bad.
The president should not own offshore companies.
In general, offshore companies are bad.
Regardless of whether the president owns them or not the president.
And why do you think it's bad?
Because it is a mean of tax evasion or legalization of dirty money.
This is the essence of offshore companies.
The election campaign is the time to get rid of the secret.
On March 13, 2019,
in the midst of the presidential race,
a lawyer working for the firms of Zelenskyy and his partners,
Yurii Azarov, signs the document.
It is a transfer of shares in Maltex,
which is equally divided between the offshore leaders of Kvartal 95.
The firm of Serhii Shefir,
the future chief aide to the President,
received a quarter of Maltex's ownership free of charge
from Zelenskyy's firm in Belize.
We asked the expert to decipher the received financial documents.
So, Zelenskyy simply donated a share of his million-dollar business.
What is Kvartal?
Kvartal is essentially fiction.
In terms of tangible assets.
That is - it's intelligence and creativity
in the minds of the creators of this content, right?
That is, the content is already created,
the content that is in the process of creation and the content that will be created.
That is, roughly speaking, copyright.
That is, you buy the copyright for what was in the past, and for what exists in the present.
There is nothing more, no property, no material goods,
no real estate. Nothing.
May 16, 2019 TSN news
"Ihor Kolomoiskyi has returned to Ukraine.
Journalists of the Schemes program reported earlier that the plane with the businessman landed at 2:30 am in Dnipro.
Earlier, Kolomoiskyi stated
that he would return if Volodymyr Zelenskyy won in the second round. ”
I am Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
elected President of Ukraine by the will of the people,
taking this high post,
I solemnly swear allegiance to Ukraine
Zelenskyy, the former head of Kvartal 95,
asked his friends and partners from the secret offshore network to move to government offices.
The day after the inauguration,
Zelenskyy appointed his business partner Serhii Shefir
as chief aide to President of Ukraine.
Chief aide to the President, what are your obligations?
My task, apart from my main job,
is to do what he did when he went into politics: he needs to be a human.
To be a decent person, this is our main task.
That decent people appeared in politics.
So you, as the chief aide to the president, have to
look after the moral face of the president?
That he does not grow a crown.
Do I understand correctly?
He will never grow himself a crown.
A lawyer of Kvartal 95,
whose firm formally owned a key offshore,
Ivan Bakanov received the position he still holds.
My name is Bakanov Ivan Hennadiiovych.
Today, I am the acting head of the Security service of Ukraine.
The President of Ukraine set a rather clear task.
The first is
to overcome corruption, which the president considers a major problem.
He will buy an apartment somewhere in London,
to get away from the Ukrainians,
away from all this….
That is not for me!
That's how mysterious our Ukrainian soul is.
Do you still have questions,
my dear Ukrainians?
Thanks to Pandora Papers,
we were able to get the same trust declaration
that was supposed to be in the vault.
After analyzing it,
we learned that Zelenskyy's partners
liked London and its luxury real estate.
Clarence Gate.
A building with a fascinating century-old history.
At one time it was inhabited by famous poets, actors and composers.
There is also an apartment of Serhiy Shefir, Ukrainian resident.
His firm acquired it in 2016.
Luke came here to see
what the London estate of the chief assistant to the President looks like.
Kvartal members bought real estate in the British capital through offshore companies.
Why exactly this way?
I can buy an apartment as an individual,
then I will sell it
and I will pay tax on the sale price,
if I buy, for example, as a company
and this property is very valuable,
hen in the future I can
sell, for example, companу
and at the company level there may be no taxes at all.
Serhii Shefir, who until recently said that he “takes care of the moral image of the president",
is in no hurry to declare his property,
saying that he works on a volunteer basis.
You have no right to film me.
Please, take away the camera.
Do you the right to film me?
You are a public person.
I am not a politically exposed person!
Why not?
Read the NAPC.
I am a freelancer.
Why does Serhii Shefir not want to be called as a PEP,
meaning a public figure?
I will say this way.
If a person is the closest adviser to the president, he must declare his assets.
And he has to file a public official's declaration,
because he is the person who influences the president's decision,
so we have to understand the possible conflicts of interest in making that decision.
This is bad and this role of Serhii Shefir is not correct.
Cases involving high-ranking civil servants
are being investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
NABU detectives are also investigating crimes related to money laundering.
Skomarov Oleksandr, Deputy Head of the Main Detective Unit,
Head of the Second NABU Detective Unit.
We received a fairly large array of documents
and have already seen that we will deal with a significant theft of funds
from a banking institution.
The volume of case is about 250 sheets of paper
and 2.5 thousand volumes were transferred to NABU.
It is about stealing money from Privatbank.
The investigation believes that the former owners,
in particular Ihor Kolomoiskyi and Hennadii Boholyubov,
could have caused billions in losses to the state.
The damage was to be assessed by experts.
But the problem appeared.
There could be more progress in this case if the institute
of expertise, which is subordinate to the Security Service of Ukraine, provided an expert opinion.
There was a certain vision of the expert
and a justification because of which he cannot calculate the amount of damage.
Therefore, I connect it with the possible influence
of the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine on the departmental expert institution.
The Security Service of Ukraine was then headed by Ivan Bakanov,
a former lawyer for Kvartal 95
who had long and skillfully guarded the secrets of Zelenskyy's offshore network.
I got the impression that the case was being investigated
in parallel with what the Anti-Corruption Bureau was doing
to ensure that Privatbank's top officials were not prosecuted.
The General's Prosecutor Office was left without a head.
Today deputies gathered again for an extraordinary meeting.
This time to express distrust to Ruslan Ryaboshapka.
And fire him from the positin of the General Prosecutor.
For 263 - the decision is made!
Actually, there was some secret agreement
and they decided to remove all the people who bother
Kolomoiskyi ... who create discomfort
for Volodymyr Oleksandrovych in governing the state.
At that moment, Kolomoiskyi convinced Zelenskyy that he could do it himself
So the oligarch told the president what to do?
And he agreed
He advised, he persuaded.
Let us return to the offshore network of Kvartal members exposed by journalists
and the process of Zelenskyy's alleged withdrawal from it during the elections.
On April 25, 2019,
a few weeks after the transfer of Zelenskyy's share to Serhii Shefir,
the same lawyer Yurii Azarov signed another document
stating that Maltex intends to pay dividends to Zelenskyy's offshore.
Surprisingly, his offshore company no longer owned a stake in this firm.
What really happened with the payment of dividends?
The answer to this question is known only to the owners of the offshore web center -
Maltex.
Exactly to Serhii Shefir and, possibly, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
We sent them detailed questions
with all the journalistic revelations,
but they did not answer.
It was possible to communicate by phone only with the lawyer Yuriy Azarov
who signed these documents.
Yurii Oleksiiovych, good afternoon!
Yes, it's me, good afternoon.
This is Olena Loginova, Slidstvo.Info journalist, OCCRP.
Remember I asked you questions?
Yes
I'm sorry, I don't have time.
You do not have time? But it's about
the president's business, his encirclement, and your customers.
Do you have nothing to object to?
At least some of your position can be heard?
I don't have time to communicate.
That is, everything described in the questions is actually true?
And in fact, did Zelenskyy, his firm, continue to receive dividends
after handing over the shares to Shefir?
I beg your pardon, do not fantasize.
What you wrote - you wrote.
We must not forget that I am a lawyer.
If you distort my words, we can meet in court.
Okay. But what are your words?
You don't comment, do you?
According to experts, the documents received by journalists
indicate an attempt by Zelenskyy during the 2019 elections
to remove his name from a key company in the network.
The story of dividend payments is quite suspicious,
because it is impossible to get them after leaving the company.
The General's Prosecutor chair did not remain empty for long.
The floor is given to the candidate for the position of the General Prosecutor Iryna Valentynivna Venedyktova
Good afternoon, dear colleagues! Dear friends!
First of all, I am of course very grateful to the President for such a high level of trust.
I promise not to sell affairs,
not to be a traitor…
It would seem that the case of Privatbank with the new General Prosecutor will move faster.
But something went wrong.
An information leak occurred during the handing over of suspicion
in the most high-profile financial scam involving oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi
Someone warned the bank's top manager, Volodymyr Yatsenko,
and he was trying to escape the country.
The fact that the leak happened is a fact
and I want to tell you as a person who has been in the prosecutor's office for 11 months,
as the information is spreading in law enforcement agencies,
I think it is not spreading anywhere…
How did it happen that Yatsenko ran away?
There is such an assumption
that after approval of these reports of suspicion or before approval
An information leak occurred
Those persons who are either suspected of committing crimes, or may be involved in them,
they have a very
wide range of possibilities.
Very great possibilities.
They own the financial resources.
But at the last moment the plane was turned around, and NABU agents managed to detain the banker.
You are detained
suspicion of committing a crime under Part 5 of Article 191 of the CPC.
Namely, the embezzlement of Privatbank's funds
in a particularly large amount.
However, a few days after landing the plane,
the top manager of Privatbank was released on bail.
There is an unwritten rule in our system.
Do not imprison, and you will not be imprisoned.
This whole fight against corruption resembles sport fishing.
When they caught, photographed and released.
Once Kolomoiskyi's Private Bank is now state-owned
and is suing ex-owners for money laundering.
US law enforcement officials believe that Kolomoiskyi bought real estate in the United States
with Privatbank money.
But dirty money from the bank, which went through offshore,
could be found in key people from Kvartal 95.
Let's take another look at the scheme published during the election -
our sources have confirmed the accuracy of the information provided in it.
We showed it to a British expert.
Journalists received additional data
that clarifies what the company connected to Kolomoiskyi,
Zelenskyy's companies and partners formally paid for.
40 million was transferred as a contribution capital.
What is the contribution to capital?
Well, usually, the contribution to capital means
the transfer of funds by shareholders or by investors to the company.
In this case, the investors of Zelenskyy's companies were Ihor Kolomoiskyi's structures.
During the election debate, Petro Poroshenko reminded Zelenskyy
of suspicious transfers of 40 million from Kolomoiskyi.
Tell me, please, when your partner
who robbed Ukraine
paid $41 million
from Privatbank's accounts to you personally,
to your secret offshore accounts.
And how do you shake his hand?
And won't you cut off his hands?
You said
that I am Kolomoiskyi's partner
and how I will live with it.
I want to tell every Ukrainian, look, this is what happened in Ukraine,
all channels belong to the oligarchs.
All of them.
These are Kolomoiskyi, Pinchuk, Firtash, Akhmetov
and the esteemed president.
So Zelenskyy avoided answering.
And maybe he has a reason for it.
Could this 40 million be a payment for comedy shows from Zelenskyy's Studio?
After all, it was when Kvartal 95 was leaving for Kolomoiskyi's channel.
It is possible that there was also an additional agreement
for the purchase of products of Kvartal 95.
But why did they disguise it as a contribution to the authorized capital?
What are the advantages of such a tool?
Well, first of all, this is a tax component,
if we are talking about the contribution into capital, then the company that receives these funds,
does not pay income tax from these funds.
But if we are talking again about Belize and BVI,
then the company in any case does not pay
taxes from the funds received.
an investor or shareholder simply transfers funds to their subsidiaries,
and thus this can be explained as simply pouring funds
from one group's pocket into another group's pocket.
Since Ihor Kolomoiskyi was behind the investment,
I wonder why he had to pour money into Zelenskyy's companies?
The information we received allows us to trace
the origin of these 40 million.
The companies from which the money came are suspected of laundering billions from Privatbank.
That is, Zelenskyy's offshore company could also be part of the story
of money laundering.
Did law enforcement check these transfers?
Funds from Privatbank
go to Zelenskyy's offshore companies.
To pay for the services received by Kvartal from 1 + 1.
Did you check it?
It was not my task to check, this was done by the anti-corruption bureau.
Olena: is it in your case or not?
Have you researched this element or not
I can't dwell on this, because I can't understand what kind of cash flow there is, what kind of company it is
and how it happened.
I cannot be sure of the accuracy of this data.
We have a case, for you to understand, thousands, tens of thousands of transactions
The official investigation of frauds in Privatbank
has been going on for five years.
Ukraine, the United States and the United Kingdom are trying to punish Kolomoiskyi
for withdrawing money from Privatbank.
Why in your opinion Kolomoiskyi and Boholiubov still haven't handed over suspicion?
I do not understand the question.
I do not think that sufficient objective data have been obtained
to indicate the involvement of these individuals in the commission of criminal offenses.
Undoubtedly, therefore, probably no suspicion was reported.
The current General Prosecutor
refused to answer journalists' questions
about the Privatbank case.
Do you think Ihor Valeriiovych will ever get his suspicion or not?
I'm sure so.
And why are you sure?
Because I believe in justice.
If the Ukrainian judiciary fails to do so, the American judiciary will.
Aren't you afraid that the FBI, USA will demand that Ukraine bring you to justice here?
And for what?
Well, do you see that they weren't arrested?
Zelenskyy has a trump card.
Two decisions and the day after tomorrow Kolomoiskyi in the United States.
That is all.
And Kolomoiskyi's fate is Lazarenko's: to go crazy in an American prison.
Nobody wants to talk about the secret network of offshore companies
connected with Zelenskyy.
Only Borys Shefir, the co-founder of Kvartal 95,
answered a few of our questions.
He, unlike his partners, did not go into politics,
and now - the owner of a significant part of the offshore business of Kvartal.
… That is, you are now a very important person...
Maybe. Bakanov was our financial director, he arranged the financial schemes of our company.
And honestly, I'm not ready to answer you now.
Maybe I'm the owner.
Can then ask the question:
why did Kvartal 95 register the offshore part of its business at all?
Why was it impossible to do only with Ukrainian companies?
This is what you ask our lawmakers, who
have created such a situation that
all the time the business is under the threat
of the bandits coming to power.
At that time it was very important to protect one's interests.
Okay, I heard this position.
And after your friends...
friends, colleagues, partners came to power
why didn't you bring the business back to the country?
This is what I am doing right now.
The fact is that this is not a quick process and I have already closed 23 companies,
and I am going to continue it.
Because I trust my partners.
If our judicial system is still put in order,
we can hope for the reliability of the government.
I see. Just two years already your friends in power.
How much longer do you need to complete this process?
How many more companies are there?
I'm afraid they won't have time.
Need a second term?
I do not know. I would not like another term.
It's very difficult for me to handle the company.
Well, Mr. Boris, I still have this question…
Let's say goodbye.
And then you will edit everything and I will get from the President...
Just one question. I wanted to ask...
The image of an honest and modest president riding a bicycle to work
has remained in the movies.
A study of documents from a new Pandora Papers leak
allowed us to learn more about the offshore secrets of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Criticizing his opponents for using island firms, as we see,
Zelenskyy himself resorted to intricate maneuvers to generate income offshore.
The president's former business partners from Kvartal
are also in no hurry to close offshore,
all of which are linked by a web of companies whose activities were previously unknown.
Now we know that these companies could be part of the story
of money laundering from Kolomoiskyi's Privatbank.
It is possible that out of these 40 million from the oligarch,
Kvartal bought luxury real estate in London.
The real Zelenskyy, as it turned out, has something to hide.
Unlike an actor who plays the President.
Since the film is about
the head of our state Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
an actor similar to him will be involved in these moments.
We are currently shooting a casting, which should also be included in this film
Imagine the people electing you as president.
All power is in your hands.
Your friend is the head of the Security service of Ukraine.
The General Prosecutor is one hundred percent your person.
You can do anything.
What will you do?
Well, is it me or Volodymyr Zelenskyy?
Well, that's me.. Well, yes, yes.
The first thing we will do is fight the oligarchs
and end the war in Donbass.
I enjoy life,
I run the country.
Dear Ukrainians, everything will be fine, as I promised.
Wait a little longer and we will be fine.
Spring will come.
I think that with the
money and power you have, you can do anything.
Or almost anything.
What will I do?
I will bring order to this country.
As before my presidency,
who knows what happened.
Well, I would be a very,
very good president.
And I would do a lot of good for this country.
We would take us to
the first..
We would be better than America or anyone else.
We would be the first country in the world in all respects.
There it is.
Ha-ha-ha.
Thank you very much.
Well is this a good movie at all?
Well, is it, like, well, neutral?
Well, you know, like everything in this life, the truth cannot be… This is not a black and white film.
This is a film where there are no
devils and angels, where there is just reality.
There is a reality
that became successful with Zelenskyy and his friends before they came to power,
But then, when people come to power, they
take on some responsibility,
and there are other questions raised here.
Yes, I understand.
And there will be both.