“Financed the enemy”: SBU took on Medvedchuk’s wife
The Security Service of Ukraine summoned for questioning and accused Oksana Marchenko, the wife of opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk, of financing the Russian National Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The former TV personality allegedly transferred the money under the guise of payment for the protection of a mansion in Alupka on the southern coast of Crimea, with an area of 2 hectares, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the SBU, which tirelessly exposes “enemies of the fatherland,” the scheme speaks of large-scale underground financing of Russian “occupation groups.”
Marchenko, being the beneficiary of a network of Kyiv companies and an enterprise in Yalta, allegedly transferred millions to the accounts of the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Crimea.
“It was established that these companies paid the ‘Russianists’ allegedly for ‘protecting Medvedchuk’s real estate’ on the territory of the peninsula,” the SBU said in a statement. “In addition, Marchenko’s business structure regularly replenished the Russian budget in the form of taxes and fees.”
Thus, according to the Ukrainian special services, in order to pay taxes and insurance fees, Marchenko registered an LLC in Yalta with an authorized capital of 1 billion rubles, for which she attracted the assets of three controlled investment companies in Kyiv. Then the created LLC entered into a security agreement with the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to SBU estimates, Marchenko paid more than 50 million hryvnia for protecting the mansion and paying taxes. However, for what period is not specified.
During searches in Medvedchuk’s apartments, offices of Kyiv companies and the residential addresses of their top managers, the SBU found documents, computers, flash drives and mobile phones “with evidence of transactions.” They also found stamps and bank cards, and based on all the evidence collected, they suspected Marchenko of financing actions committed with the aim of violently changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power. Marchenko and the director of the Yalta LLC face up to 8 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Let us recall that back in the early 2000s, Medvedchuk received a mansion with the adjacent territory of the former anti-tuberculosis sanatorium named after. Baranov in Alupka. The residence occupies 1.9 hectares with a private beach.
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