Documents show Yanukovych's wild spending

Documents proving unbelievably lavish spending have been found at the abandoned home of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

Lamp fittings worth tens of millions of euros and money transfers for vast sums: more evidence of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych's pampered lifestyle and paranoia emerged on Sunday.

As parliament voted to hand over his lavish private estate -- including a golf course, private zoo and car collections -- to the state, journalists sifted through a trove of documents found hastily discarded when protesters seized the property Saturday after Yanukovych fled.

The documents paint a vivid picture of the wild extravagance at the home of Yanukovych -- whose private life was kept a ferociously guarded secret.

Among the mountains of information, one document that put the costs for one of the many buildings on the vast estate at $US70 million ($A77.83 million).

Other paperwork posted online showed some more unusual spending habits.

Documents posted on Twitter by a journalist from local English-language newspaper Kyiv Post seemed to show a bill for gold chandeliers worth $A46 million, while another showed nearly $US1000 ($A1,111.91) spent on a medical bill for fish.

Elsewhere posted on the website of Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper documents appear to confirm over $US1.2 million ($A1.33 million) was spent on furniture for one of the houses and about $US10,000 ($A11,119.14) more on name plaques for the animals in the zoo.


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