“I would like to confess: yes, I gave instructions directly on the movement of cash across the line of contact with the occupied Crimea,” RIA Novosti quotes Poroshenko.
According to the former Ukrainian leader, the relevant instructions were given to the head of the National Bank Valeria Gontareva, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and the head of the Security Council Vasily Gritsak.
“Moreover, I called Putin about this, and that was in 2014,” Poroshenko added.
He stated that if he had not done anything at that time, these funds from Crimea would have ended up in Donetsk.
On January 19, the Pechersky District Court of Kiev chose a measure of restraint for ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in the form of a personal obligation in the case of high treason and the sale of coal from the Donbass, and also ordered him to hand over his passport.
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine appealed against the decision of the Pechersk District Court.
Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula spoke in favor of reunification with Russia.