Losses of the state budget of Ukraine from the operation of corruption schemes in state enterprises are More than 5 billion dollars, informs Ukrainian journal citing the words of the head of Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili.

"The amount of the shortfall of funds coming from government only certain oligarchic groups can range from 5 billion dollars a year ", - quotes the log extract from the submission of Saakashvili, which he showed at the anti-corruption forum in Odessa on Sunday.

according to the edition, Saakashvili among the beneficiaries of these schemes, called the Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov, Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Dmytro Firtash, as well as people's deputies Mykola Martynenko and Andriy Ivanchuk from party "popular front" Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Saakashvili left Georgia after the inauguration of the new President George Margvelashvili in November 2013. The chief Prosecutor's office of Georgia in absentia brought to the former President of the prosecution in several criminal cases, and among them of embezzlement of about $ 5 million of state funds for personal needs.

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