Ukraine's Ousted Leader Secretly Spent Millions on Lavish Estate

KIEV, Ukraine—When ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych hurriedly fled his 343-acre palatial estate outside the capital Kiev last Friday night, he left behind garages full of collector cars, a zoo of exotic animals, greenhouses filled with banana trees and golden-headed monogramed golf clubs, among dozens of other extravagances

But the most important discovery came when a group of journalists found thousands of documents floating near a dock that juts from the waterfront residence into the Kyiv Sea. What they couldn’t grab floating on the surface, divers recovered from the seafloor. The documents, which were published online Tuesday, reveal how much these lavish things actually cost: $2.3 million for dining room decorations, $800 for fish food, nearly $1 million for a lawn watering system and $17,000 for tablecloths — the list goes on. Read more...