Timoshenko and Putin crumbed the deal Firtash-Yushchenko-Kaczynski

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The scandal, caused by acquiring of 11bn cubic meters of gas from RosUkrEnergo’s (RUE) properties to ownership of Naftogaz of Ukraine was aligned with the attempt of Dmitry Firtash, RosUkrEnergo co-owner to seize part of Poland’s gas market, with the president of Poland Lech Kaczynski as a stock holder, said the source, close to negotiation process to a REGNUM correspondent. 

According to information of the source, Polish Petroleum and Gas Mining (PGNiG) signed an agreement with RUE to acquire gas already pumped into UGS (underground gas storages) of Ukraine as a subsequent of arrangements between Firtash and Kaczynski. Afterwards, Poles sent a letter to Gazprom rejecting to get part of gas proposed this year, allegedly due to decreasing of needs against the backdrop of global financial crisis. As a result of this operation Kaczynski would have got its percent (huge sum), selling “blue-sky fuel” in the Polish market from the resources of RUE ", — said the source. However, both the Prime Ministers of Ukraine Julia Timoshenko and Russia Vladimir Putin launched a preventive strike to this plan. According to their agreements, Gazprom pulled for the mediator 11bn cubic meters of gas against debts, and the Ukrainian side overbought this gas from the Russian holding. The result is that Poland remained without third of overall volume of received gas and is going to be at litigation with RUE.

As informed a REGNUM earlier, 27 % of RosUkrEnergo, which were supplying gas to the Ukrainian market during last two years, belongs to Yushchenko’s family. According to well-informed source in State Committee for Financial Monitoring of Ukraine, it was found out, that huge amounts left for offshore accounts abroad after Naftogaz settled with RUE. The investigation showed that air travels of Victor Yushchenko’s family all over the world had been leased from the same offshore accounts. Particularly Yushchenko’s private visits to the USA.  The source also informed that $1 billion had been transferred to the Ukrainian president’s brother Peter Yushchenko company accounts in consideration of the deal of 2006, imposing RUE to the Ukrainian market.