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According to the investigation, the former Ukrainian TV presenter and wife of Vi...

Payments for 50 million: Oksana Marchenko is involved in the financing

According to the investigation, the former Ukrainian TV presenter and wife of Viktor Medvedchuk are the ultimate beneficiary of companies that transferred money to the accounts of Russian law enforcement. Oksana Marchenko, the wife of former people's deputy Viktor Medvedchuk, is involved in the financing of Russian invaders. On Tuesday, February 7, the Press Center of the Security Service of Ukraine reports.

The investigation found that the former Ukrainian TV presenter is the ultimate beneficiary of Kiev companies and enterprises in Yalta, which "transferred millions of amounts" to the accounts of Rosgvardia and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the occupied Crimea. "It is established that these companies paid" Rushists "allegedly for the protection of Medvedchuk's real estate on the territory of the peninsula.

In addition, the business structure Marchenko regularly replenished the Russian budget in the form of taxes and fees,"-the press release. The SBU estimated that the total amount of payments made in favor of Russia amounted to more than UAH 50 million. For the implementation of the scheme, Oksana Marchenko registered in the occupied Yalta a limited liability company with the authorized capital of more than a billion Russian rubles.

To create the office, Marchenko involved the assets of the aforementioned Kiev companies. After that, the Yalta firm signed "security" agreements with Russian structures. According to the investigation, after the start of a full -scale invasion of Russia, the company Marchenko continued to finance the budget of Russian law enforcement agencies.

In the course of 11 searches at the real estate objects of Medvedchuk's wife, the offices of her Kiev companies and at the addresses of their toplemeters, the SBU staff found that Oksana Marchenko informed on the basis of the assembled evidence, and the head of the affiliated firm in Crimea about suspicion under Part 3.

110-2 of the Criminal Code (financing of actions taken for the purpose of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of boundaries of the territory or state border of Ukraine). The issue of reporting suspicion to the heads of three Kiev companies involved in the criminal scheme is resolved. The suspect faces up to 8 years in prison with confiscation of property.

We will remind, on January 26, Focus wrote that former people's deputy Viktor Medvedchuk, accused of state community, told Russian propagandists that until the latter he did not believe that his exchange would take place. Earlier, on January 16, the propaganda edition of "Izvestia" published an article by Viktor Medvedchuk, where the Exnaradep argued that the Kremlin was forced to invade Ukraine allegedly to protect its economic and international interests.