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Is this even real? First of all, the dollar amount is unbelievable. Second, it's not being reported on most of the Ukrainian news sites I frequent (or it's well hidden). Third, it's far, far bigger than the missing funds as reported by most media (5.5B).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivatBank



5.5B is the bank itself. Think about how much money Firtash, Ahmetov, Timoshenko and Kolomoyski together siphoned through gas prices, coal and electricity trickery in like 20 years.

Could be half a trillion easily.




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