“Among those arrested: 26 cars, 30 land plots, 23 houses, 32 apartments, 17 parking spaces and a motor yacht,” the State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.
It is noted that shares in authorized capitals in 25 companies, the beneficial owner of which is Medvedchuk or his wife, were also arrested.
On April 7, the press service of the National Police of Ukraine reported that the court allowed to seize assets whose ultimate beneficiary is Marchenko. During searches of real estate registered to an enterprise owned by Medvedchuk’s wife, law enforcement officers seized more than 300 paintings by famous artists, snowmobiles, ATVs and cars.
On April 11, it became known that the Lychakovsky District Court of the city of Lviv handed over the yacht Royal Romance Medvedchuk, arrested on March 16, at the disposal of the Agency for Tracing and Asset Management (ARMA).
Medvedchuk appears in several criminal proceedings, he is suspected, among other things, of treason and aiding terrorism. He was to be under house arrest until March 10, 2022.
On February 21, a large number of police and titushki arrived at his house. Bihus.info journalist Denis Bigus wrote that “there is a feeling that the main expectant of the “Russian world” is going … happens “.
On February 27, on the third day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said that Medvedchuk escaped from house arrest. The politician’s lawyers, as Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova reported on the same day, told law enforcement officers that he was “on the spot”.
On March 4, a court in Lvov gave permission to detain Medvedchuk, from the decision it followed that from March 2 he was put on the wanted list.
On the evening of April 12, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Security Service of Ukraine detained Medvedchuk. The SBU clarified: detention was the result of a multi-level special operation.
According to Zelensky, Putin’s godfather was in hiding for 48 days and was detained when tried to leave Ukraine. He put on the Ukrainian military uniform himself to “disguise himself,” Zelensky said. The President offers to exchange him for captured Ukrainian servicemen. The Kremlin responded by saying that Medvedchuk not a Russian citizenand also that his position regarding a possible exchange is allegedly unknown.
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