Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans

dsi1 wrote:

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 12:03:47 +0000, gm wrote:

It's best Mr. Zelenskyy stick with Europe in fighting this war...

Meanwhile, back in the states, Trump/Musk tried to sneak 80 million
bucks out of the bank accounts of NYC. They got caught. This whole
administration is a giant money grab.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy
"In October 2021, the Pandora Papers* revealed that Zelenskyy, his chief
aide, and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov
operated a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands,
Cyprus, and Belize. These companies included some that owned expensive
London property...
Around the time of his 2019 election, Zelenskyy handed his shares in a
key offshore company over to Serhiy Shefir, but the two men appear to
have arranged for Zelenskyy's family to continue receiving the money
from these companies. Zelenskyy's election campaign had centred on
pledges to clean up the government of Ukraine..."
*Pandora Papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers
"The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes
of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
(ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the
secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and
former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more
than 100 business leaders, billionaires, and celebrities...
Among those names are former British prime minister Tony Blair, Chilean
president Sebastián Piñera, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta,
Montenegrin president Milo Đukanović, Ukrainian president Volodymyr
Zelenskyy..."
Pandora Papers: Ukraine leader seeks to justify offshore accounts:
Files obtained by ICIJ claim Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his partners
established a network of offshore companies in 2012.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/4/pandora-papers-ukraine-leader-seeks-to-justify-offshore-accounts
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office has sought to justify
his use of offshore companies as protecting him against pro-Russian
forces, following leaked revelations in the Pandora Papers...
the files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists (ICIJ) and published on Sunday claimed that Zelenskyy and
his partners established a network of offshore companies back in 2012...
According to its findings, two of the offshore companies belonging to
Zelenskyy’s partners were used to buy three lavish properties in central
London.
The report also found that Zelenskyy, just before he was elected,
transferred his stake in one of the offshore companies to his top aide
Serhiy Shefir – the target of a shooting attack last month...
Supporters of another ex-president, Petro Poroshenko – a billionaire
defeated by Zelenskyy in 2019 and who also appeared in an earlier
investigation into offshore companies – accused Zelenskyy of tax
evasion...
“He and his accomplices took funds offshore without paying any taxes to
the Ukrainian budget,” Iryna Gerashchenko, a lawmaker from Poroshenko’s
faction, wrote on Facebook...
Before becoming president, Zelenskyy played a history teacher in a
comedy series who was elected president after denouncing endemic
corruption...
In his election campaign, he cultivated an image of a leader seeking to
“break the system” and promised a fierce fight against corruption in one
of Europe’s poorest countries..."
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GM
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