Ukrainian MOP Says Former Trump Campaign Chairman Hid Payments

At a news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday, March 21, Ukrainian Member of Parliament Serhiy Leshchenko showed a document he said proved US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman tried to hide payments from Ukraine’s ousted president.

Leshchenko said the 2009 document was a contract between a shell company registered in Belize with an office opened in Kyrgyzstan for computers. But, the politician said, the $750,000 payment was for Paul Manafort’s consulting work with pro-Russian former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was removed from office in 2014 and is now in exile in Russia.

Manafort was Trump’s campaign chairman from March until August 2016, when his connections to Yanukovych forced his resignation. Credit: Ukrainian Crisis Media Center and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via Storyful