In Ukraine, assets of Medvedchuk’s wife worth 11.9 million dollars were seized

A court in Ukraine arrested the assets of former TV presenter Oksana Marchenko, the wife of pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. This was reported to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

The total value of the seized assets is 440 million hryvnias (11.9 million dollars). According to the SBU announcement, the court’s decision concerns 6.8% of the shares of OJSC “Dneprospetsstal Electrometallurgical Plant named after A.M. Kuzmin” in Zaporizhia, which Marchenko controls through three offshore companies.

“Seizure of assets will protect them from re-registration as fictitious persons and in the future will allow them to be transferred to the benefit of our state,” the department’s publication notes.

In February of this year, the court seized Marchenko’s property in the amount of more than 5.6 billion hryvnias (152.4 million dollars). Packages of 14% of shares in two oblenergos and more than 4% in a third, which Marchenko controls through five offshore companies, were seized. The court also seized two plots of land, four residential houses in Kyiv and Crimea, and ten cars. In addition, assets in 18 investment, agro-industrial, telecommunications and other enterprises were seized. Among them are the Kyiv companies “Terra-Invest”, “Ukrcapital” and “Sport-Tour”, which, according to the investigation, “Medvedchuk’s wife used to carry out subversive activities against Ukraine.”

Marchenko is suspected of financing actions committed with the goal of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional system or seizure of state power, changes in the territory or state borders of Ukraine.

• Medvedchuk is one of the leaders of the “Opposition Platform – For Life” party, which was banned after the war. His friendship with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, is known as the godfather of Medvedchuk’s daughter. Since May 2021, Medvedchuk has been under house arrest in a criminal case of treason. Three days after the start of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, it became known about his escape. In April 2022, he was detained and subsequently arrested by the court. In September, the Ukrainian side exchanged Medvedchuk for captured Ukrainian servicemen.