Ukraine opens probe into possible surveillance of former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
Source: Washington Post
MOSCOW — Ukrainian authorities announced a probe Thursday into possible surveillance of U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch before she was dismissed from her post by the Trump administration.
The statement by Ukraine’s Interior Ministry followed the disclosure of new documents in the impeachment proceedings into President Trump. The material included exchanges between Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, and others about the need to push Yovanovitch from her post.
The documents — provided to the House Intelligence Committee by Parnas — include messages with Robert Hyde, a Connecticut Republican who is running for Congress. In those exchanges, Parnas is informed about Yovanovitch’s physical location.In an interview with MSNBC aired Wednesday, Parnas said he did not take Hyde’s claims seriously.
The Interior Ministry statement said Ukrainian police “are not interfering in the internal political affairs of the United States.”“However, the published messages contain facts of possible violations of Ukrainian law and of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, which protect the rights of diplomats on the territory of another state,” the statement continued.
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What a mess.
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Jan. 16, 2020 at 8:40 a.m. EST
The announcement follows the disclosure of new documents showing Lev Parnas, an associate of President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, discussing possible efforts to monitor the movements of Yovanovitch before she was removed from her post by the Trump administration.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2020/01/16/ukraine-opens-probe-into-possible-surveillance-of-former-u-s-ambassador-marie-yovanovitch/
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t-rump and cronies made her uncomfortable.
Not the investigation tRump wanted (just what he deserved)
But then, their president is a comedian! 
And that last part was also the reason for Perry being one of the "3 Amigos".
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By Michael Warren and Rene Marsh, CNN
Updated 4:09 PM ET, Thu October 17, 2019
Washington (CNN)In the months leading up to President Donald Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, multiple people associated with Trump, both inside and outside of his administration, were engaged in efforts to change leadership at Naftogaz, Ukraine's geopolitically important state-owned oil and gas company. One of those people, US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, faces a deadline Friday to comply with a congressional subpoena as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Questions about whether Trump offered to restore military aid in exchange for politically beneficial investigations in Ukraine have formed the basis of the impeachment inquiry. But the parallel attempts to influence Naftogaz further illustrate the nature of the Trump administration's interactions with Ukraine, in which statecraft and diplomacy appear to be mixed up with political and business interests and which are now the focus of a federal criminal investigation. The common thread in these attempted shakeups of Naftogaz is Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney who has emerged as a central player in US-Ukraine relations.
Among those pushing for changes at Naftogaz was Perry. During his May trip to Kiev for Zelensky's inauguration, Perry delivered a list of four candidates to replace the existing American member of Naftogaz's international supervisory board, according to a source familiar with Perry's conversations. Two months earlier, Naftogaz was also in the crosshairs of two associates of Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. Parnas and Fruman were pushing a scheme at a major energy conference in Houston to replace Naftogaz's chief executive officer with someone who would be more beneficial to their own business interests, according to one American businessman informed of their efforts.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/politics/parnas-fruman-perry-naftogaz/index.html
