Yuri Lutsenko: fugitive Ukrainian oligarch gave Saakashvili USD 500 thousand
Yuri Lutsenko: fugitive Ukrainian oligarch gave Saakashvili USD 500 thousand

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko said during a special briefing that Sergey Kurchenko, a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch gave Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia and ex-governor of Odessa, and his supporters USD 500 thousand.

Lutsenko said that Saakashvili was financing protest rallies in purpose to overthrow the Ukrainian government with Kurchenko’s money.

Mikheil Saakashvili has been detained in Kiev today. Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office and Security Service has been searching the apartment of the former President of Georgia since morning.