Poroshenko says there will be no oligarchs in Ukraine

World May 30, 2015, 17:19

KIEV, May 30. /TASS/. There will not be any oligarchs in Ukraine, Ukraine’s President Pyotr Poroshenko said on Saturday in the Black Sea port of Odessa presenting Georgia’s former president Mikhail Saakashvili as a newly-appointed governor of the Odessa region.

"There will be no more oligarchs in Ukraine," Poroshenko said adding that "oligarchs must pay more [taxes] that the middle class and more than small business."

The president underscored that "the programme of de-oligarchization will be put into life" while listing the tasks he had set before "Ukraine’s big friend Mikhail Saakashvili.".

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