Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk gave money to Clinton Foundation Which may negative effect Hillary Clinton for President. Please check
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RE: Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk gave money to Clinton Foundation
Wchich may have negative effect Hillary Clinton for President.
Please check ASAP if there are potential negative imlentations for Clinton Foundation
And Hillary for president then need to return the Money to Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk.
1.FT.com / In depth - Yushchenko links poison to meal with secret police Yushchenko ( today DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT PRO US IN UKRAINE ) links poison to meal with secret police ... Mr Kuchma's businessman son-in-law, Viktor Pinchuk,
Victor Pinchuk son-in-law of former president Wiktor Kuchma and his ministers ignored the requests of the international community to allow the media to work independently and to investigate the numerous journalists’ murders.
2.Victor Pinchuk allegedly link the to the killing of many free/open news jurnalists like Georgy Gongadze, sought and received asylum in US on April 13, 2001. Washington also granted asylum to Myroslava Gongadze, the journalist's 28-year-old widow who had helped her husband in various projects).
The new government is trying to rectify the mistakes of the old regime and to reinvestigate the cases of killed journalists.
For example, the investigation of Georgiy Gongadze’s murder still attracts a large public and international attention today. He was the editor of the Internet publication “Ukrayinska Pravda” (Ukraine’s Truth) who was kidnapped on Sept16 2000. A few days later, he was found dead and beheaded in the forest nearby Kyiv. During the past four years, this case had not been well investigated, because of the possibility that people from high political ranks, including the ex-president Leonid Kuchma, were involved in the murder. The investigation was stopped several times, and the results of the body examination were falsified. As a result, the body of Georgiy Gongadze has not yet been buried, and currently, new investigators are re-examining it.
It is also worth noting that American system of checks and balances under which different branches of power compete with each other. Therefore, parliament as a cornerstone of every democratic polity is supposed either to dominate the executive or form a reform minded, while democratic opposition to the President. Ukrainian Parliament has failed to do so. Setting up an a Parliamentary investigative commission to probe into Gongadze case underlined the impotence of the legislature since the commission had no legal ground for its activities -- the law on Parliamentary investigative commissions (such institution is envisaged in the Constitution) was vetoed by the President and Parliament was unable to override the veto.
Confirmed that Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, a son-in-law of former president Wiktor Kuchma, had made contributions to Clinton Foundation
which in my opinion may effect Hillary Clinton for President.
It was the controversial privatizations of state enterprises in the 1990s that led to many leading Ukrainians making vast fortunes.
We have a sense that the power of the oligarchs has been reduced
Paul Bermingham
World Bank's Ukraine director
These groups of business people, which are based in the industrial East and in Kiev, contain some of the wealthiest and most influential people in the country, including former President Leonid Kuchma and many of Ukraine's oligarchs.
During his 10-year rule, Mr Kuchma was accused of cronyism and presiding over one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.
"The old system was all corrupted," says Mr Rybachuk. "Business and politics were interconnected. People would just walk around with kilos of cash and they used to believe they could do what they liked."
Ukraine fears the rise of new oligarchs
BBC News, Kiew, Ukraine
December 2002, soon after billionaire Victor Pinchuk married the daughter of then Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, the Ukrainian government announced it was prematurely lifting a moratorium on the privatisation of Nikopol. Three months later Kuchma's government announced the intended sale of a controlling interest in Nikopol. A consortium led by Pinchuk won a tender process designed to favour him.
According to the complaint, Kuchma's regime became infamous for "the near-total corruption of its official economic life". In 2004 Ukrainian voters took to the streets in what has come to be known as the Orange Revolution. Its leader, opposition candidate Victor Yushchenko, ultimately defeated Kuchma's successor-designate and took office early last year.
Ukraine’s oligarchs and friends of Yanukovich, moving to re-privatize industrial assets, allegedly bought on the cheap by billionaires Rinat Akhmetov and Victor Pinchuk. (One such asset, the steel plant Kryvorizhstal, which was obtained by Akhmetov and Pinchuk for $800 million, was later sold to billionaire Lakshmi Mittal for nearly $5 billion.)
Victor Pinchuk now members of parliament themselves, lobbied strongly to put Yanukovich back in power. After months of political stalemate, Yushchenko accepted Yanukovich as his prime minister in August.
President Kuchma called this practice "protection of national economy." The result of such discrimination was a huge loss for the state budget. Pinchuk and Akhmetov paid US$800 million for Kryvorizhstal, whereas American and Russian investors proposed more than US$1.5 billion.
Corruption stories in Ukrainian media serve primarily as tools of war among groups of media owners, then secondarily as a field for journalistic investigations. On television, only Channel 5 promotes a regular program, Zakryta Aona (Closed Area), designed with professional standards of investigatory journalism. The subject of the program varies, from falsification of the Mukacheve mayoral elections to the corrupt activity of the State Department of Affairs (Derzhavne Upravlinnya Spravamy), which operates with state-owned property.
Tolerance of "small" corruption remains a critical social problem. While strongly criticizing "oligarchs" and other high-ranking corrupt figures, ordinary Ukrainians often consider small bribery as a useful tool to speed the pace of securing needed and favorable official decisions. For ordinary citizens, bureaucratic procedures appear to be an obstacle to economic and other activities, and they often prefer to pay bribes rather than waste time in bureaucratic corridors.
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The Victor Pinchuk Foundation supports the joint project between the Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative to fight AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. The project aims to reduce the growth rate of HIV/AIDS cases in Ukraine and to improve access to treatment and care for Ukrainians living with HIV/AIDS.
An agreement of cooperation between President William Jefferson Clinton, Elena Franchuk and Victor Pinchuk to implement the project was signed in New York on the 18th of September 2006. Under the program, Ukraine will get access to the best international experience in the fight against AIDS as well as latest know-how in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. The contribution of the Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will amount to USD 2.5 million.
The five year project was developed by Clinton Foundation’s experts. During the first year of implementation, the main activities will be concentrated in Dnipropetrovsk region with a further scale up of the positive experience to other regions in Ukraine.
Among the objectives of the project are: increasing access to HIV/AIDS testing; improvement of the existing laboratory system; training and mentoring for health care providers; improvement of the government procurement system; and extending the access to substitution therapy for injected drug users.
Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation
The Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation was founded by Elena Franchuk in September 2003. It was the first and remains today the only private foundation to fight AIDS in Ukraine.
The Foundation’s activities are focused on: conducting large-scale information and educational campaigns; drawing attention of opinion and business leaders to the HIV/AIDS problem in Ukraine; providing direct help to people living with HIV/AIDS; attracting additional resources to support projects for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS; extirpation of prejudices, decreasing stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS.
The cooperation between the Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative started in 2004, when representatives of the Clinton Foundation visited Ukraine at the private invitation of Elena Franchuk.
The first visit to Ukraine resulted in the signing of a memorandum between the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Government of Ukraine, which guaranteed Ukraine’s access to the lowest prices for generic drugs for HIV/AIDS treatment. Due to this memorandum a bigger number of patients got access to life saving treatment.
At the beginning of 2005, during President Clinton’s visit to Ukraine, a second and extended memorandum between the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Government of Ukraine was signed which stipulated the main axes of cooperation between the Clinton Foundation and Ukraine in the field of HIV/AIDS. The five-year project to fight AIDS in Ukraine is structured to achieve the goals set out in that memorandum.