According to the Journal of Public Procurement in Ukraine, the government spent almost 60 million euros (635 million hryvnias) on the needs of President Viktor Yanukovych and his clerks in 2012.
Working for the public finance project Our Money, the researchers Lesya
Ivanova and Yuriy Nikolov published the figure in the Ukrainian edition
of Forbes magazine. Such information about government funds and its use
is technically available to anyone.
