Ukraine’s prime minister said Tuesday his country would gladly turn over information it has on former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort if special counsel Robert Mueller asks.
Volodymyr Groysman, who took office in 2016, was reportedly attempting to fend off assertions of corruption inside Ukraine’s government a day after Manafort was charged by Mueller’s team with tax evasion and money laundering. Manafort, along with business associate and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates, was accused of funneling $75 million through offshore accounts, and much of it came from Ukraine.
Other charges against Manafort and Gates included failure to register as a foreign agent.
Groysman, though, evidently wants transparency and cooperativeness. “We haven’t received any requests for information in this regard, but if we receive a request we will, of course, provide the information we have,” Groysman told CBC News. Groysman was in Canada to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
He also wants to distance Ukraine’s present government from the previous regime of President Viktor Yanukovych, who was a pro-Russia candidate that Manafort propped up with a public relations campaign in 2014. That same year, Russia annexed part of Ukraine, Crimea, which led to severe economic and travel sanctions from the United States.
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