Yanukovych Leaks: Ukraine activists find damning dossiers on deposed leader
25 February 2014, 14:37
An online database containing files snatched from the residence of Ukraine's deposed President Viktor Yanukovych has gone live at Yanukovychleaks.org. The webpage features a catalog of administrative papers and ledger records that give a glimpse of the president's "black bookkeeping" practice, activists claim.
Several dozens of images showing crumpled water-soaked papers have already been uploaded to the website.
According to the homepage message, the project aims to make Yanukovych's paper trove available to journalists and people around the globe. Owners of the online resource also say they are going to upload investigations and journalist reports based on the recovered documents.
A bundle of what is described as "classified documents" and "black-bookkeeping records" were allegedly unearthed on the territory of the president's estate in Mezhihirya on 22 February during a raid by opposition activists and Maidan-leaning journalists.
Among the discarded papers were receipts on construction costs for the strongman's Mezhihirya residence, as well as accounting files, cash transfers from his sponsors and folders upon folders of dossiers on "dangerous" opposition activists, journalists and members of parliament.
One of the files allegedly contained information on Tatiana Chornovil, who was working on an article about Yanukovych's opulent estate. Last December, Ms. Chornovil reportedly came under attack that police blamed on domestic violence. Raiders also found traces of fires that they believed had been lit by the staff in a rush to destroy evidence before they fled the compound.
Another luxury residence that was stormed by Maidan activists during the unrest is the complex of Sinegora in the village Guta, in the Carpathian Mountains. The residence is now open to the public, with the locals offering tours around the compound. There have been no reports of more classified documents.
Voice of Russia, Lenta.ru
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