Federal prosecutors investigating the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani and two of his associates have interviewed the head of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company, the executive's lawyer tells AP.
FILE - In this June 13, 2014, file photo, Naftogaz chief executive officer Andriy Kobolyev speaks during a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine. Federal prosecutors have interviewed the head of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company as part of an ongoing probe into the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani and two of his Soviet-born business associates.
“The Department of Justice requested an interview with Andriy Kobolyev,” said Breuer. “He agreed and has voluntarily talked with the government attorneys.” Giuliani’s Soviet-born associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested Oct. 9 at an airport outside Washington while trying to board a flight to Europe with one-way tickets. They were later indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy, making false statements and falsification of records.
The efforts by Parnas and Fruman included helping to arrange a January meeting in New York between Giuliani and Yuri Lutsenko, Ukraine’s top prosecutor at the time, as well as other meetings with government officials. As part of that effort, Parnas and Fruman in March approached Naftogaz executive Andrew Favorov at an energy conference in Houston and and tried to recruit him to be their partner in a new venture to export up to 100 tanker shipments a year of U.S. liquefied gas into Ukraine, where Naftogaz is the largest distributor, according to two people Favorov later briefed on the details.
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