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Daily Times
February 23, 2018
Among a few of these disgraced men and women were Arnoldo Aleman, ex-president of Nicaragua who was sentenced to 20 years in 2002 (he looted $100m); Pavlo Lazarenko, the prime minister of Ukraine who was arrested by Swiss authorities in 2008 (he looted $200m); Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali, theÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
February 9, 2018
Boersch successfully prosecuted ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who was sentenced in 2006 by a San Francisco court to nine years in prison and a $10 million fine. However, President Petro Poroshenko and his supporters have been reluctant to appoint her and have pushed to appointÃÂ ...
Jersey Evening Post
September 17, 2017
Mr de Kluiver has for the past ten years been lead representative of the Justice Department on the Financial Action Task Force and during 20 years in the department has been instrumental in bringing to justice a number of high-profile names such as Bernie Madoff, Sani Abacha and Pavlo Lazarenko,ÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
August 4, 2017
Among them there were Martha Boersch, the U.S. prosecutor who succeeded to bring ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko to justice, Carlos Castresana, who imprisoned the president of Guatemala and a number of other top officials in different countries, human rights lawyers, and even dubious privateÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
July 14, 2017
Martha Boersch, a former U.S. federal prosecutor, was the runner-up during a Verkhovna Rada vote for an auditor of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine on July 13. Boersch successfully prosecuted ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who was sentenced in 2006 by a San FranciscoÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
July 13, 2017
When Viktor Bout—the arms dealer extraordinaire who inspired the 2005 Nicolas Cage movie Lord of War—sought to set up anonymous shell companies, according to a Senate panel, he turned to, of all places, the U.S. So too, court documents indicate, did former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo LazarenkoÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
May 22, 2017
Lutsenko says PGO receives US assurances that Lazarenko's assets will be returned to Ukraine. By Interfax-Ukraine. Published May 22, 2017 at 11:01 am. (Archive photo) Then Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, then President Leonid Kuchma and then Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Moroz in Kyiv in 1997. Photo byÃÂ ...
ValueWalk
April 14, 2017
These properties were but a portion of the assets connected to Pavlo Lazarenko, who served as prime minister of Ukraine in 1996-97, and who was once characterized by the watchdog group Transparency International (TI) as one of the world's top 10 kleptocrats. TI estimated that Lazarenko stole $200ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 12, 2017
In one of the few examples of a Ukrainian corruption-related charge that has gone to court, ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was found guilty in California in 2004 of money laundering, and sentenced to 97 months in prison. Lazarenko had fled Ukraine back in 1999, when he fell out of favour with theÃÂ ...
Antigua Observer
March 31, 2017
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Pavlo Lazarenko, who was convicted in the US in August 2006 for engaging in a US $250 million fraud scheme, has been granted the right to negotiate with Antigua & Barbuda over some of his frozen assets. According to Courthousenews.com, US District Judge PaulÃÂ ...
OCCRP
January 11, 2017
Some US$ 30 million believed to be tied to Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine's former Prime Minister and allegedly one of the world's most corrupt top officials, are sitting frozen in a Lithuanian bank, OCCRP's Lithuanian partner 15min.lt revealed Wednesday. lazarenkopavlo Pavlo Lazarenko (Austėja Usavičiūtė,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
On any given day, Pavlo Lazarenko looks like an ordinary stay-at-home dad, shuttling his three small children to school and waiting for his young wife to return home from work. Perhaps he'll run an errand or two. But Mr. Lazarenko, it turns out, is a world-class kleptocrat hiding in plain sight in suburbanÃÂ ...
Interfax-Ukraine
November 29, 2017
... entire Guatemalan leadership, or Martha Boersch - the American prosecutor who represented the accusation at the trial of Pavlo Lazarenko.
Kyiv Post
November 3, 2017
U.S. courts in 2006 convicted ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko of laundering $114 million; he spent three years in prison. Now the ...
Kyiv Post
August 4, 2017
Among them there were Martha Boersch, the U.S. prosecutor who succeeded to bring ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko to justice, Carlos Castresana, who imprisoned the president of Guatemala and a number of other top officials in different countries, human rights lawyers, and even dubious privateÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
July 13, 2017
When Viktor Bout—the arms dealer extraordinaire who inspired the 2005 Nicolas Cage movie Lord of War—sought to set up anonymous shell companies, according to a Senate panel, he turned to, of all places, the U.S. So too, court documents indicate, did former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo LazarenkoÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
May 22, 2017
(Archive photo) Then Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, then President Leonid Kuchma and then Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Moroz in ...
The Guardian
April 12, 2017
In one of the few examples of a Ukrainian corruption-related charge that has gone to court, ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was found guilty ...
Antigua Observer
March 31, 2017
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Pavlo Lazarenko, who was convicted in the US in August 2006 for engaging in a US $250 million fraud ...
OCCRP
January 11, 2017
Some US$ 30 million believed to be tied to Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine's former Prime Minister and allegedly one of the world's most corrupt top ...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
On any given day, Pavlo Lazarenko looks like an ordinary stay-at-home dad, shuttling his three small children to school and waiting for his ...
Kyiv Post
August 4, 2017
Among them there were Martha Boersch, the U.S. prosecutor who succeeded to bring ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko to justice, CarlosÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
July 14, 2017
Boersch successfully prosecuted ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who was sentenced in 2006 by a San Francisco court to nineÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
July 13, 2017
... former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, a man who has landed on Transparency International's list of the 10 most corrupt officials.
ValueWalk
April 14, 2017
These properties were but a portion of the assets connected to Pavlo Lazarenko, who served as prime minister of Ukraine in 1996-97, and whoÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 11, 2017
In one of the few examples of a Ukrainian corruption-related charge that has gone to court, ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was found guiltyÃÂ ...
Antigua Observer
March 31, 2017
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Pavlo Lazarenko, who was convicted in the US in August 2006 for engaging in a US $250 million fraudÃÂ ...
OCCRP
January 11, 2017
Some US$ 30 million believed to be tied to Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine's former Prime Minister and allegedly one of the world's most corrupt topÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 30, 2016
Close behind is some $250 million caught in a legal battle between the United States and Pavlo Lazarenko, the former Ukrainian primeÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
Pavlo Lazarenko, left, the former prime minister of Ukraine, with his son, ... Pavlo Lazarenko, his wife, Oksana Tsykova, and Ivan Lazarenko.
OCCRP
January 12, 2017
Some US$ 30 million believed to be tied to Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine's former Prime Minister and allegedly one of the world's most corrupt top officials, are sitting frozen in a Lithuanian bank, OCCRP's Lithuanian partner 15min.
Kyiv Post
January 7, 2017
And she portrayed herself as clean and corruption-free, even though she made a vast fortune as a natural gas intermediary during the wildly corrupt days of ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, her mentor who served a prison term in America, andÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 30, 2016
Close behind is some $250 million caught in a legal battle between the United States and Pavlo Lazarenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister who fled his country in 1999 amid corruption charges and has sought political asylum in the United States everÃÂ ...
Kyiv Post
December 29, 2016
The kleptocratic system breaks down when dissident oligarchs, such as Pavlo Lazarenko and Ihor Kolomoisky (the Russian examples would be Mikhail Khodorokovskyy and Boris Berezovsky), attempt to challenge incumbent presidents.
Kyiv Post
November 24, 2016
To illustrate how far behind the nation's prosecutors are in catching the crooks, he and his colleagues are still spending time on civil proceedings abroad trying to recover $270 million stolen by ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko in the 1990s ...
Kyiv Post
November 24, 2016
The dismal status quo is best illustrated by the fact that prosecutors are still trying to recover the $270 million stolen by ex-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko in the 1990s. At this pace, the money will be long gone and we'll all be long dead before ...
Kyiv Post
October 14, 2016
"The then-governor (Pavlo) Lazarenko was also a beneficiary (of Sodruzhestvo). No one did anything without him in those days," said Nikita Poturayev, Pinchuk's de facto communications head in 1998.
Kyiv Post
September 22, 2016
Pavlo Lazarenko, a former prime minister, is wanted in Ukraine on charges of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the state.
gulfnews.com
July 15, 2016
1996 - Ukraine's Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko narrowly escapes an assassination attempt when a bomb explodes near his motorcade in Kiev.
gulfnews.com
July 15, 2016
1996 - Ukraine's Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko narrowly escapes an assassination attempt when a bomb explodes near his motorcade in Kiev.
New York Times
July 13, 2016
A picture caption on Friday with an article about Pavlo Lazarenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister, misstated, in some copies, the amount of time Mr. Lazarenko spent in the federal prison at Terminal Island, Calif.
Politico
July 8, 2016
REGULAR CALIFORNIA GUY -- "A Ukrainian Kleptocrat Wants His Money and U.S. Asylum," by NYTimes' Leslie Wayne: Pavlo Lazarenko "is a world-class kleptocrat hiding in plain sight in suburban America. He is the former prime minister of Ukraine, whereÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 6, 2016
On any given day, Pavlo Lazarenko looks like an ordinary stay-at-home dad, shuttling his three small children to school and waiting for his young wife to return home from work.
Kyiv Post
June 30, 2016
Oleg Sukhov is a former Moscow Times editor and reporter and a graduate of Moscow State University. He also used to teach history and the theory of knowledge in English at the European Gymnasium in Moscow.
Kyiv Post
June 21, 2016
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is a not-for-profit, joint program of a number of regional non-profit investigative centers and for-profit independent media stretching from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
ISN
June 16, 2016
In August 2006, Pavlo Lazarenko, one of Kuchma's Prime Ministers who was also close to Tymoshenko, was singled out for misdeeds, fled the country, and then was convicted and sentenced to prison in the United States for money laundering, wire fraud, andÃÂ ...
Bloomberg BNA
June 6, 2016
Working with Ukraine's Prime Minister-designate Pavlo Lazarenko, Tymoshenko converted Cube into United Energy Systems of Ukraine, PFG (UESU), to serve as an intermediary for natural gas imports from Russia through Gazprom, according to documentsÃÂ ...
Transitions Online
June 3, 2016
By comparison, the $6.7 million paid for a nine-bedroom house near Novato, California, way back in 1998 by Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukrainian prime minister in 1996-1997, looks like small change.
Bloomberg BNA
May 24, 2016
Working with Ukraine's Prime Minister-designate Pavlo Lazarenko, Tymoshenko converted Cube into United Energy Systems of Ukraine, PFG (UESU), to serve as an intermediary for natural gas imports from Russia through Gazprom, according to documentsÃÂ ...
The News International
April 24, 2016
Numerous globally-famous rulers like Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert, Nigeria's dictator Sani Abacha, former Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos, Panama's Manuel Noriega, Taiwan's Chen Shui-bian, former Ukrainian Premier Pavlo Lazarenko, formerÃÂ ...
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