Cash: $12 million. Decoration of a dining hall and tea room: $2.3 million. Statue of a wild boar: $115,000. "A bribe1": $4,000.
1200万美元的现金收据;1000万美元的发票;“骑士大厅”的窗帘花了8万欧元(约11万美元);110万欧元的各种花木;房间的木质装饰品花了230万美元;一尊“野猪”雕像花了11.5万美元;投标中的“贿赂”花了3.258万格里夫纳(近4000美元)。
These are some of the expenses
detailed2 in financial documents found in President Viktor Yanukovych's abandoned residence, which was occupied by protesters after the leader fled the capital.
As thousands of Ukrainians continued to tour Yanukovych's opulent estate outside of Kiev on Sunday, evidence was uncovered of
lavish3(浪费的) spending in an economy that is teetering on the
verge4 of default.
Yanukovych left Kiev on Friday night after
opposition5 protesters took control of the capital and the national parliament in the wake of deadly clashes with police last week. More than 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
While visitors gawked in
awe6 and
outrage7 at Yanukovych's
luxurious8 mansions9, ponds and exotic animals, journalists combed through heaps of documents that appeared to show a leader who
basked10 in
extravagant11 wealth while his country sought bailouts from both the West and Russia.
Many of the financial and other documents were burned, while others were dumped in a lake before Yanukovych fled his closely guarded residence, flying to the eastern city of Kharkiv, where his support base is strongest.
Divers12 were able to
retrieve13 many of the documents, and
activists14 laid them out to dry.
Photos of the documents were posted online by Mustafa Nayem, a top Ukrainian investigative journalist for the Ukrainska Pravda website and Hromadske.tv online news channel. Other respected Ukrainian news
outlets15 also reported on the documents.
One was a receipt for $12 million in cash. Another
invoice16 was for a payment of $10 million. Some 80,000 euros (about $110,000) went for curtains in a room called the "knight's hall." Another 1.1 million euros (about $1.5 million) was spent on plants. Wooden decor for a handful of rooms cost $2.3 million.
Notably17, $115,000 was spent for a statue of a "running boar," possibly intended for Yanukovych, who is an
avid18 hunter.
One page listed
expenditures19, and next to item No. 47 on the sheet was a payment of 32,580 hryvna (nearly $4,000) for what was described as a "bribe" used in a bidding process.
The documents were sure to fuel more anger among protesters.