Funding of the Russian Guard and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs: the SBU reported the suspicion to Medvedchuk’s wife
The Security Service eliminated the scheme of underground financing of Russian law enforcement agencies through companies owned by Oksana Marchenko, the wife of Viktor Medvedchuk, a former deputy of the People’s Republic of Ukraine, suspected of treason.
She reported about it press service Security services.
It is noted that Marchenko is the ultimate beneficiary of a network of Kyiv companies and enterprises in Yalta, which transferred millions of sums to the accounts of the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in occupied Crimea. These companies, the investigation established, paid the occupiers allegedly for the “protection of Medvedchuk’s real estate” on the territory of the peninsula.
To implement the scheme, the SBU adds, Marchenko registered a company in Yalta with a charter capital of more than 1 billion Russian rubles. For its creation, the assets of three controlled investment companies located in Kyiv were used. Subsequently, the company in Crimea signed the corresponding “security” agreements with the structures of the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In addition, Marchenko’s business structure replenished the Russian budget in the form of “taxes and fees”. The total amount of payments made in favor of the aggressor country is more than 50 million in hryvnia equivalent.
After the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, Marchenko’s company continued to finance the budget of the occupiers.
During 11 searches of the suspect’s real estate, the offices of her Kyiv companies and the residences of their top managers, the SBU officers found documents, computers, flash drives and mobile phones with evidence of devices, as well as seals and bank cards used in illegal activities .
Based on the collected evidence, the SBU investigators informed Oksana Marchenko and the head of the affiliated firm in Crimea about the suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of actions committed for the purpose of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of territory or state border of Ukraine).
They face up to 8 years in prison with confiscation of property.
