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Ukraine: Terror-financing probe launched into bank that funded businesses in the conflict zone, according to recent report
Ukraine Launches Terror-Financing Probe Into Bank Loan After RFE/RL Report, 27 October 2021
Ukrainian prosecutors have opened a terrorism financing investigation after it emerged that the country’s state-owned export-import bank lent tens of millions of dollars to companies owned by a businessman with interests in parts of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists.
The Prosecutor-General’s Office told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service on October 27 that it opened the probe last week after lawmakers demanded an investigation following an investigative report published earlier this month...
Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and the separatists has claimed more than 13,200 lives since April 2014...