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22 Mar, 2015 14:44
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UKRAINE OLIGARCH ‘TOP CASH CONTRIBUTOR’ TO CLINTON FOUNDATION PRIOR TO KIEV
CRISIS

From 2009 up to 2013, the year the Ukrainian crisis erupted, the Clinton
Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation,
which is headquartered in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a new report claims.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Reuters / Brendan McDermid)
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In 2008, Viktor Pinchuk, who made a fortune in the pipe-building business,
pledged a five-year, $29-million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, a
program that works to train future Ukrainian leaders “to modernize Ukraine.” The
Wall Street Journal revealed the donations the fund received from foreigners
abroad between 2009-2014 in their report published earlier this week .

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Several alumni of the program have already graduated into the ranks of Ukraine’s
parliament, while a former Clinton pollster went to work as a lobbyist for
Pinchuk at the same time Clinton was working in government.

Between 2009 and 2013, the very period when Hillary Clinton was serving as US
secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation appears to have received at least
$8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

That places Ukraine as the leading contributor among foreign donators to the
Clinton Foundation.

> Foreign Donors to Clinton Foundation by Ranking
> 
> Ukraine: $10.0 million
> 
> England: $8.4
> 
> Saudi Arabia: $7.3 million
> 
> Germany: $6.7 million
> 
> Ireland: $6.5 million
> 
> India: $5.0 million
> 
> Canada: $4.5 million
> 
> Argentina: $2.0 million
> 
> United Arab Emirates: $1.4 million
> 
> China: $1.3million
> 
> Source: Wall Street analysis of Clinton Foundation disclosures

The Pinchuk foundation said its donations to the Clinton-family organization
were designed to make Ukraine “a successful, free, modern country based on
European values.” It went on to remark that if Pinchuk was hoping to lobby the
US State Department about Ukraine, “this cannot be seen as anything but a good
thing,” WSJ quoted it as saying.

However, critics have pointed to some disturbing aspects regarding the
donations, including the coincidence of the Ukrainian crisis, which began in
November 2013, and the heavy amount of cash donations being made to the Clinton
Foundation on behalf of wealthy Ukrainian businessmen. In any case, given that
Hillary Clinton appears to be considering a possible run in the next
presidential elections, more scrutiny will be devoted to her past work with the
charity that bears the Clinton name.

First, as already mentioned, Clinton was serving as the US secretary of state at
the time that the donations to her family’s charity were being made. Although it
is true that the Clinton Foundation refused donations directly from foreign
governments while Clinton was serving in the Obama administration, the door
remained wide open to donations from public citizens like Pinchuk, who has
advocated on behalf of stronger ties between Ukraine and the European Union.

Political connections in the Pinchuk family run deep. Not only did Viktor
Pinchuk serve two terms as a Ukrainian parliamentarian, but his wife is the
daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.

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train radicals

After being introduced to former US President Bill Clinton by Doug Schoen, a
political analyst and pollster who has worked for both Clintons, Pinchuk and his
wife began making donations to Clinton-family charities, WSJ reported.

During Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department, Schoen began work as a
congressional lobbyist for the Ukrainian oligarch. Schoen defended his lobbying
activities, saying there was no connection to Pinchuk’s hefty donations.

“We were not seeking to use any leverage or any connections or anything of the
sort relating to the foundation,” he said.

Schoen said he and Viktor Pinchuk met on several occasions with Clinton aides
including Melanne Verveer, a Ukrainian-American who holds membership in the
influential Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the Trilateral Commission.

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for Ukraine support – Nuland

The purpose of these meetings, according to Schoen, was to encourage the US
government to pressure Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovich to release
his jailed political opponent, Yulia Tymoshenko.

Whatever the case may be, Ukraine entered a period of severe crisis on November
21, 2013, when Yanukovich suspended plans for the implementation of an
association agreement with the European Union. The announcement triggered mass
protests that led to Yanukovich fleeing Kiev on February 22, 2014.

Social unrest eventually consumed the country, as the eastern part of Ukraine
attempted to gain more independence from Kiev. Recently, both sides have agreed
to a tense ceasefire, hammered out last month in Minsk, Belarus by the leaders
of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany.

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