Austria has sent to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine with a request for assistance in the investigation of money laundering the head of administration of the Ukrainian President Boris Lozhkin, said Tuesday the people's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Serhiy Leshchenko.

"according to my information, Austria has sent to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine the request on legal assistance in the investigation being conducted by the Vienna regarding the transfers of funds carried out Lozhkin" - the politician wrote in his blog on the Internet representation of the publication " Ukrainian truth ".

According to the Deputy, the head of the administration Poroshenko appears in criminal proceedings according to section " money laundering ". Leschenko has supplemented his words by the fact that the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin has received a request a few weeks ago, but kept It secret.

"His name (Lozhkin - ed.) appears in criminal proceedings according to section" money laundering ". Questionable translations multimillion sums remarked unit of the interior Ministry of Austria, which investigates money laundering and contacts with banking institutions of the country, " - said Leshchenko.

according to the Deputy, but Lozhkin, in criminal proceedings appear two more Ukrainian.

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