In addition, land plots and houses of Medvedchuk and his wife, as well as shares in the authorized capital of firms, were arrested. The politician was detained on April 12, according to the criminal cases opened against him, he faces life imprisonment jpg” alt=”Court in Ukraine arrested 32 apartments, 23 houses and cars of Medvedchuk” />
Viktor Medvedchuk
A court in Lvov arrested cars, apartments and houses belonging to the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform party. For life» Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko. This was reported on the website of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine.
«On April 13, the Lychakovsky District Court of Lviv, on the proposal of the State Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Prosecutor General, arrested another 154 objects of movable and immovable property of People's Deputy of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko»,— the message says.
26 cars, 32 apartments, 23 houses, 30 land plots, 17 parking spaces and a motor yacht were arrested. The court also arrested shares in authorized capitals in 25 companies whose beneficiaries are the politician or his wife, the SBI noted.
Earlier in April, Ukrayinska Pravda wrote that the Ukrainian police seized the assets of the company, the ultimate beneficiary of which was Marchenko. At that time, searches were carried out in the real estate objects registered for the company, they were also carried out at Medvedchuk's dacha. During the searches, law enforcement officers seized cars, snowmobiles, ATVs and paintings by famous artists. Then it was also reported about the arrest of seven apartments.
In addition, the Security Service of Ukraine announced the arrest of Medvedchuk's plane. In March, the yacht of the politician Royal Romance was arrested in Croatia, later the court in Lviv handed it over to the Agency for Tracing and Asset Management.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered Russia to exchange Medvedchuk “for our boys and girls in Russian captivity.” The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on his words, said that the politician is not a citizen of Russia and the Kremlin “does not know if he himself wants some kind of Russian participation.” in resolving the situation. Peskov also said that Medvedchuk “came out for peace” and he didn't have any “backstage relationships”; with Russia.
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