KIEV, Aug. 19 - Ukrainian Member of Parliament Serhiy Leshchenko from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction claims that former president Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions used its shadow assets to pay to U.S. journalist Larry King and the party's European-based office.

"Money from the Regions Party's shadow assets was paid, for instance, to Larry King, a well-known American journalist who had been a CNN host for decades. He got $225,000 from the Regions Party's shadow coffer," Leshchenko said at a press conference on Friday morning in Kiev.