Ukraine prosecutor says puzzled by lack of U.S. help on Manafort case

Serhii Horbatiuk, the head of Special Investigations at the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kiev, Ukraine November 13, 2017. Picture taken November 13, 2017 REUTERS/Matthias Williams

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine is puzzled by the lack of a U.S. response to requests it has made to question former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort as a witness over two cases involving misuse of Ukrainian state funds, the chief investigator said.

Manafort was indicted last month in Washington on charges he denies ranging from money laundering to acting as unregistered agent of former pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovich's Party of Regions. The charges, some going back more than a decade, mention neither Trump nor his campaign.