Editor’s Note: The following is an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a Kyiv Post partner. The stories can be read here. The investigation is part of the international investigative journalism project called The Panama Papers.
Several weeks before the publication of the original Panama Papers investigation in April 2016, the Cyprus lawyers for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko were busy.
His representatives had received inquiries from reporters about an offshore company Poroshenko had set up to hold his vast candy empire. The British Virgin Islands (BVI) holding company, called Prime Asset Partners Ltd., would be outed in the published investigation.
