“Kiev Patriarchate” can be used for money laundering – head of UOC press Service

Moscow, August 17, Interfax – Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church press service Vasily Anisimov told about machinations of Filaret Denisenko, head of the self-proclaimed Kiev Patriarchate.

“It’s quite possible they traffic funds through his office for money laundering… He’s a convenient blind for various frauds,” Anisimov said in his interview posted on Tuesday by the Radonezh website.

He said that once Germany decided to help Chernobyl veterans with humanitarian aid that consisted of withdrawn Soviet soldiers’ equipment. There were echelons of military trucks, high boots, pots, jackets, clam shovels and etc.

“The parliamentary committee of Filaret’s follower Yavorivsky has given the lion’s share of it to the “Kiev Patriarchate” and uniates. Where’s the union, where’s Filaret and where’s Chernobyl? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church got nothing though it provides pastoral care to the Chernobyl zone and organizations there. According to the law, it was banned to sell humanitarian aid. It could only be distributed,” Anisimov noted.

According to him, the Chernobyl Union of Ukraine that unites Chernobyl cleanup veterans and has branches in all regions “still wonders to whom Filaret sold it all out.”

The other story is connected with allotting land in elite village Plyuty not far from Kiev for building a resort for Chernobyl priests’ children.

“Filaret has built a country house for his family there and his elder daughter Vera Denisenko told me that besides her father, mother (Yevgenia) and their children, no people from Chernobyl have ever lived there,” head of church press service said.

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