Charges Against Manafort Resonate Among Ukrainians<br />31, 2017<br />KIEV, Ukraine — The charges against Paul J. Manafort and an associate involve allegations of tax fraud in the United States, but anticorruption groups in Kiev say<br />that Mr. Manafort profited from financial wrongdoing in their country and that it cost the Ukrainian people dearly.<br />that The money that they gained through corruption can never be safe in any country.<br />"The arrest of Manafort is very positive, and a long-awaited event,’’ said Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, director<br />in Kiev of Transparency International, which has been tracking money laundering in Ukraine for years.<br />Even if Ukraine cannot recover the money, the indictment sends a message to those still benefiting from corruption<br />in Ukraine, Oksana I. Syroyid, the deputy speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament, said in a telephone interview.<br />Two groups of Ukrainian prosecutors have examined the ledger<br />but neither has opened a criminal case in Ukraine against Mr. Manafort, saying there is no proof he actually received the money.<br />Handwritten payment records discovered after that revolution suggest<br />that Mr. Manafort was compensated, at least in part, from a party slush fund of off-the-books political contributions, pointing to one possible origin of the money described in the federal indictment.
