Media: Firtash has planted a time bomb under the authority of Poroshenko

Statements by Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash about his role in the political life of the state, made at the court in Vienna, have the opportunity to become a "time bomb" and cause a serious Crisis of political power in Ukraine, " News ".

As the magazine stresses, during a court session at the end of April in Vienna billionaire told about a secret political agreement with President Petro Poroshenko and influence of the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko. According to the testimony Firtash, these politicians have taken up their posts because of the support of the entrepreneur. These Facts, reported in the publication, have the opportunity to become a trump card in the hands of political opponents Petro Poroshenko and Vitali Klitschko, but in the administration of the Ukrainian President believes that it may, the information will not cause a strong resonance.

"Testimony Firtash seriously hurt only Klitschko, but here's a little who's going to seriously beat you up, because in Ukraine there are no oligarchs, who are not sponsored by any party, and no politicians, who some time ago did not help any oligarchs," writes the journal, citing a source in the presidential administration.

Anyway politicians and experts doubt that the data provided by the entrepreneur, does not affect the head of the Ukrainian country. So, one of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada said that the ruling coalition " there are many people Firtash ", which will eventually have the opportunity to undermine it. Review bureaucrat, open conflict between the billionaire and the President - a question of time, perhaps because it will happen in September.

Political scientist Vadim Karasev believes that the statement of Dmitry Firtash in court will be the trump card in the hands of the right opposition and with the worsening of the situation she uses it ".

"The facts stated Firtash, will be used to sway political fall, but the climax will not at the present time", write "News" referring to the opinion of the Ukrainian political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko.
April 30, the judge of the Land court of Vienna in criminal cases Christoph Bauer refused U.S. request for the extradition of Dmitry Firtash said that Washington, based on their interests, tried to eliminate the entrepreneur from the political life of Ukraine. Bauer said that Firtash is an influential figure in Ukraine in the field of gas and titanium and in this context, the gas is politics ". In the process of meeting Firtash and witnesses discussed the role of oligarchs in the political battle in the period of the Maidan and after Yanukovych fled, insisting that he was politically influential figure and was in conflict with the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and also advocated for equal relations of Ukraine with the European Union and Russia.


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