Over two years, almost UAH 10 million has been spent from the state budget on foreign business trips of the Opposition Platform representatives - MP
Kyiv • UNN
Over two years, the state budget of Ukraine spent almost UAH 9.58 million on foreign business trips of officials of the Presidential Office, with the most expensive trip costing UAH 261.3 thousand per person.
Over the past two years, 9.58 million hryvnias have been spent from the budget on foreign business trips of representatives of the Presidential Office, excluding official delegations, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said, UNN reports .
Details
According to Yaroslav Zheleznyak, UAH 9.58 million was spent on foreign business trips of various officials of the Presidential Office over the past two years. The most expensive business trip was in May 2023 - UAH 261.3 thousand per person.
Addendum
MP addsthat Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Rostyslav Shurma received compensation for business trips in the amount of UAH 428 thousand in 2023, of which UAH 196 thousand was received for a business trip in October.
As a reminder,
MP from the European Solidarity party, the fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said on Friday that he was once again not allowed to go abroad on a business trip. Later it became known that his business trip abroad was canceled by the Verkhovna Rada.
The SBU reported that Russia planned to use Petro Poroshenko's meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in its ISIS against Ukraine. Therefore, the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada did not grant permission for a foreign business trip to a Ukrainian MP
On December 2, European Solidarity MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said that the authorities did not allow her and two colleagues from the faction, Iryna Gerashchenko and Maria Ionova, to go on a business trip to the United States.
In response to the MPs' complaints, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, provided statistics on how long they had been abroad.
