KYIV - Ukrainian authorities have published excerpts from secret accounting ledgers of former President Viktor Yanukovych's political party documenting more than $12.7 million in under-the-table payments that were earmarked for Paul Manafort, who is now U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign chairman.
Some of the 22 line items posted on the website of the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) show payments of more than $1 million for Manafort’s “services,” while others describe the payments as being for “Manafort exit poll in real time,” “personal computers for Manafort,” and simply “sociology” – possibly a reference to opinion surveys.
