The Prosecutor General's Office confirmed: Yushchenko has serious problems, he could go to prison for embezzlement
The Prosecutor General's Office confirms that ex-President Viktor Yushchenko is involved in a criminal case in which he is suspected of embezzlement of property totaling 540 million hryvnia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the press secretary of the Prosecutor General Larisa Sargan.
She noted that Yushchenko’s suspicion was sent back on May 25. We are talking about criminal proceedings dated December 25, 2015.
“During this investigation, a written notice of suspicion was drawn up, which indicated that Yushchenko, acting in a preliminary conspiracy with a group of people through abuse of his official position, took possession of state property - a complex of buildings and structures in the Mezhgorye tract and a house in the village of Novye Petrivtsi, land plots on which it is located. And all this costs a total of 540 million hryvnia. All this is qualified under Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code,” Sargan said.
When asked to voice some details about the case, the Prosecutor General’s press secretary said:
“Gorbatyuk (Head of the Special Investigations Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office Sergei Gorbatyuk - ed.) has the details, who sent this suspicion in writing.”
Earlier, people's deputy Sergei Leshchenko reported in his telegram channel that the Prosecutor General's Office had charged ex-President Viktor Yushchenko with embezzlement of property in the case of the Mezhygorye residence, which was removed from state ownership in 2007 and then transferred to a private company under arrangement of the residence for Viktor Yanukovych.
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