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The October 2021 Pandora Papers revealed that Zelenskyy and his chief aide and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov operated a network of offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Belize. These companies included some that owned expensive London property.
Around the time of his 2019 election, Zelenskyy handed his shares in a key offshore company over to Shefir, but the two men appear to have made an arrangement for Zelenskyy's family to continue receiving the money from these companies.
Zelenskyy's election campaign had centred on pledges to clean up the government of Ukraine.
In a 17 October 2021 interview with ICTV, Zelenskyy did not deny that in 2012 he used offshore companies. He claimed he did this to avoid (his then satirical TV shows) being "influenced by politics".Zelenskyy stressed that neither he nor any member of "Kvartal 95" were involved in money laundering.
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