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A Ukrainian court ordered the State Migration Service to grant Ukrainian citizenship to the ex-owner of the Russian bank “Pushkino” Alexey Alyakin, accused of fraud and detained by Ukrainian law enforcement officers at the request of the Russian Federation.
“Ukrainian News” reported this, citing court materials, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
In 2016, Alyakin was arrested in absentia by the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow on charges of particularly large-scale fraud - the theft of 600 million rubles from the Pushkino Bank. At the same time, in Ukraine he owns the construction company “Progres Bud”.
In 2013, he received Ukrainian citizenship, but on July 30, 2018, the State Migration Service annulled this decision, and on August 9, 2018, the banker was detained by SBU officers and arrested by the court as part of an extradition request from the Russian Federation.
“In court, Alyakin stated that he legally received a Ukrainian passport on a territorial basis and noted that he was being persecuted by Russia for political reasons and, moreover, was actively helping ATO soldiers. The Ukrainian Migration Service said that the banker allegedly forged documents about his grandmother's Ukrainian origin, and also failed to surrender his Russian passport in violation of the law.
The court noted that the case materials do not contain properly documented documentary evidence of these violations. Taking this into account, on November 15, 2018, the court ordered the Migration Service to renew Alyakin’s Ukrainian citizenship. In addition, in November 2018, a court in the Chernihiv region released a banker from custody,” the publication writes.
At the same time, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine continues to consider Russia's extradition request.
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