Is this what you are referring to:-
"Ukrainian members of parliament have demanded the presidents
of Ukraine and the United States, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump,
investigate suspicions of the legalization of $7.4 billion by the
"family" of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych through the American
investment fund Franklin Templeton Investments, which they said has ties to the
U.S. Democratic Party.
At a press
conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Wednesday, MP Andriy Derkach
announced that deputies have received new materials from investigative
journalists about international corruption and the participation of Ukrainian
officials in it.
"Last week, November 14,
the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), unnoticed by the media, announced a new
suspicion to the notorious owner of Burisma, ex-Ecology Minister Zlochevsky.
According to the suspicion, the Yanukovych family is suspected, in particular,
with legalizing (laundering) of criminally obtained income through Franklin
Templeton Investments, an investment fund carrying out purchases of external
government loan bonds totaling $7.4 billion," Derkach said.
With reference to the
investigation, he emphasized: it was money criminally obtained by the
"family" of Yanukovych and invested in the purchase of Ukrainian debt
in 2013-2014.
For his part, MP Oleksandr
Dubinsky from the Servant of the People faction said that according to
investigators, "the Yanukovych 'family' illegally obtained $7.4 billion
and laundered the funds through an investment fund close to some
representatives of the U.S. Democratic Party in the form of external government
loan bonds."
Meanwhile, Derkach said that
several facts indicate Franklin Templeton Investments' relationship with the
U.S. Democratic Party.
"The son of Templeton's
founder, John Templeton Jr., was one of President Obama's major campaign
donors. Another fund-related character is Thomas Donilon. Managing Director of
BlackRock Investment Institute, shareholder Franklin Templeton Investments,
which has the largest share in the fund. It is noteworthy that he previously
was Obama's national security advisor," Derkach said.
The MP said that the
presidents of Ukraine and the United States should combine the efforts of the
two countries to establish facts of corruption and money laundering with the
participation of citizens of both countries.
"President Zelensky must
pick up the phone, dial Trump, ask for help and cooperation in the fight
against corruption and fly to Washington. The issue of combating international
corruption in Ukraine with the participation of citizens, businessmen and U.S.
officials should become a key during the meeting of the two presidents,"
he said.
Derkach said as a result of
the meeting, it is necessary to build interaction between the Ukrainian
investigating authorities and the U.S. Department of Justice to obtain
information about the organizers of the bond issue, clients and beneficiaries
of investment funds for each purchase, interrogate fund officials, etc.
As reported, on October 9,
2019, Derkach published official correspondence between NABU and the U.S.
Embassy, according to which the first deputy of the National Anti-Corruption
Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Gizo Uglava, through his assistant Polina Chyzh, for
a long time provided the U.S. Embassy with information that negatively affected
the course of events in Ukraine and the United States.
Derkach said Chyzh received
instructions from the representative of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Hanna
Emelyanova to provide information on the case involving Zlochevsky.
Derkach also announced the
amount of money transferred to representatives of the Burisma Group, including
Hunter Biden. According to documents, in general, in favor of Hunter Biden,
Alexander Kwasniewski, Alan Apter and Devon Archer, Burisma paid about $16.5
million.
According to
Derkach, ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin repeatedly appealed to the NABU
Director Artem Sytnyk in the framework of criminal proceedings for Burisma, but
constantly received formal responses. The activities of Shokin, according to
the MP, irritated then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during his fifth visit to
Kyiv in two years. The visit on December 7-8, 2015, was devoted to solving the
issue of Shokin's resignation for the affairs of Zlochevsky and Burisma, he
said.
"The subject of pressure
was the $1 billion credit guarantee that the United States should have provided
to Ukraine: Biden himself acknowledged the pressure in his speech to the U.S.
Foreign Relations Council in January 2018," Derkach said.”
I am afraid that the moment I saw the link between the Obama Administration and certain companies associ ated with Obama and Biden - the situation is clear, Bribery and corruption personified.
The Franklin Templeton Instiutute were fined $50 million for irregular activities in California in 2004 and paid the full amount by 2008. They also had similar problems in Canada,
The Institute is also involved in activities in South Africa and one wonders what they were actually doing and if there was any link with the Zuma Government - since they seem to get involved in corrupt countries like Ukraine and SA,