Quote (Palasan @ Nov 14 2022 04:45pm)
Nothing abnormal for a guy in tv show business both in Russia and Ukraine since the 1990s, he probably officially made 1-2m dollars during the busy half of the year alone and there are under the table bonuses and such as well. So he moved his money to the west by using offshore services and maybe cheated the tax laws in one way or another, nothing compared to what his opponents did blatantly stealing 100s of millions.
"The documents show that Zelensky and his partners in a television production company, Kvartal 95, set up a network of offshore firms dating back to at least 2012, the year the company began making regular content for TV stations owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch dogged by allegations of multi-billion-dollar fraud. The offshores were also used by Zelensky associates to purchase and own three prime properties in the center of London.
The documents also show that just before he was elected, he gifted his stake in a key offshore company, the British Virgin Islands-registered Maltex Multicapital Corp., to his business partner — soon to be his top presidential aide. And in spite of giving up his shares, the documents show that an arrangement was soon made that would allow the offshore to keep paying dividends to a company that now belongs to his wife."
Maybe this sort of stuff is regular business in Ukraine but it looks sketchy to me.
Why did he start the offshore firms the year he started working for a notorious oligarch? Why switch the ownership of them before he was elected?
I dont think anyone would be shocked he was worth millions as a celebrity, but the way he moved his money and the connections to the oligarch make it seem suspicious.