Manafort Should Face Graft Probe, Ukrainian Lawmaker Says
- He was paid from a secret party account, Leshchenko says
- Ex-Trump campaign chairman denies receiving cash payments
Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Resigns
A Ukrainian lawmaker said Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, should be questioned by investigators over almost $13 million he allegedly received from a secret account for working on behalf of toppled President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau and prosecutors “should question Manafort by sending a request to the U.S,” Serhiy Leshchenko, a former investigative journalist who heads a parliamentary subcommittee on fighting corruption, told reporters Friday in Kiev. Manafort, who resigned from Trump’s campaign on Friday, “received $12,774,869 from Nov. 20, 2007, until Oct. 5, 2012, from a shadow account of the Party of Regions, which was filled in a non-transparent, corrupt way,” he said.