The SSU has conducted a series of searches of representatives of Kyiv construction companies controlled by a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the banned Opposition Platform – For Life party. According to the investigation, these commercial entities were involved in money laundering schemes in the interests of former MPs Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak.

Similar schemes were also used by citizens of russia and belarus, who are under sanctions of the National Security and Defence Council, the EU and the US.

The SSU is currently working to eliminate all illegal schemes and channels of legalization of financial assets used by the criminals. These include purchase of corporate rights of Ukrainian developers by various offshore companies and russian banks and use of funds from the sale of real estate to finance actions that harm Ukraine’s state security.

To obtain additional evidence, the SSU conducted searches at the officials’ homes and offices of construction companies.

The investigation is carried out under the Articles of the CCU:

• 437 (planning, preparation, unleashing and conduct of an aggressive war);
• 110-2 (financing of actions committed with the aim of forceful change or overthrow of constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of boundaries of the territory or state border of Ukraine).

The SSU carried out the searches under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.