The court has arrested the property of Oksana Marchenko, the wife of Viktor Medvedchuk, suspected of funding Russian occupation groups, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.
“According to the materials of the Security Service, the court arrested the property of Oksana Marchenko, suspected of financing Russian occupation groups. The total value of the seized assets is more than 5.6 billion hryvnias,” the SBU Telegram channel reported Thursday.
According to the report, the court’s decision concerns stakes of 14% each in two oblenergos and more than 4% in a third, which Marchenko owns through five offshore companies.
In addition, two land plots, four residential houses in Kiev and Crimea, as well as 10 cars belonging to the figure, the SBU informs.
“In addition, the assets of Marchenko in 18 investment, agro-industrial, telecommunications and other companies were arrested. Among them – Kiev companies “Terra-Invest”, “Ukrkapital” and “Sport-Tour”, which the wife of Medvedchuk used to conduct subversive activities against Ukraine,” informs the SBU, specifying that “they (these companies – IF-U) founded a firm under Russian law, through which Marchenko transferred millions of dollars to accounts of the Russian Federal Guard Service and the Russian Interior Ministry in occupied Crimea, and also paid ‘taxes’ to the Russian budget.”
Earlier it was reported that SBU investigators notified Marchenko and the head of the affiliated Crimean firm of suspicion under Part 3 Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing actions committed for the purpose of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, changing the borders of the territory or state border of Ukraine).
Under the same article, the top manager of Ukrkapital and Sport-Tura was reported as suspected. The perpetrator was detained and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen.
As noted in the report of the SBU, the crime suspected Marchenko and the managers of the companies involved, provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment with confiscation of property. Seizure of assets will ensure the possibility of confiscation by a court decision and protect the property from re-registration to other persons.
The investigation continues.
Investigative and operational activities were carried out by employees of the Security Service of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk region under the procedural guidance of the regional prosecutor’s office.
The Lychakivsky District Court of Lviv, on the proposal of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the Office of the Prosecutor General, arrested 154 objects of movable and immovable property of People’s Deputy of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko.
“Among those arrested: 26 cars, 30 land plots, 23 houses, 32 apartments, 17 parking spaces and a motor yacht. Shares in authorized capital in 25 companies, the beneficial owner of which is Viktor Medvedchuk or his wife, were also arrested,” the press release said. RBI service on Facebook.
Earlier, the court had already arrested the yacht and part of Medvedchuk’s real estate.
As reported, on Tuesday evening, a photograph of Medvedchuk in military uniform and handcuffs appeared on the Telegram channel of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It was accompanied by the text “A special operation was carried out thanks to the SBU. Well done!”
Zelensky offered Russia to exchange Medvedchuk for Ukrainian citizens who are held captive by the Russian military.
The head of the SBU, Ivan Bakanov, said that the FSB planned to take Medveduk through Transnistria to Moscow. According to him, under the guise of a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he was supposed to be taken to the border and transported by boat to the other side, where the FSB special forces evacuation group was already waiting for him, which, according to the plan, was supposed to deliver him to Moscow.
“This allowed operatives, SBU investigators to detain Medvedchuk on the road … near the border of the Kiev region or at the exit from the Kiev region. All this time, Medvedchuk was accompanied by Ukrainian law enforcement officers, who, in my opinion, will also be responsible for their actions,” Bakanov said.
