The SSU has found assets of the Motor Sich JSC president worth hundreds of millions of hryvnias. There was an attempt to smuggle this property out of Ukraine to evade its arrest in the framework of criminal proceedings.

The seized items include rare cars and firearms, Scythian gold and objects of antiquity and Kyivan Rus epoch.

As a result of operational and investigative efforts, the SSU identified those involved in the smuggling attempt. These were several chiefs of the plant’s structural units.

These individuals tried to hide the company head’s property on the territory of controlled commercial entities. Next, the officials planned to smuggle the ‘assets’ out of Ukraine.

However, the SSU Counterintelligence and investigators were proactive and timely located these caches and those who arranged them.

During the searches, the law enforcement found and seized:

• 7 elite cars, including 4 rare ones;
• a boat;
• 3 hunting guns and a rifle;
• a large number of antiques of European nations.

All the seized items have been sent for expert examination. The procedure to arrest the property is underway.

In addition, the SSU exposed other officials close to the ‘fan of Iskander-M’, who were persuading the plant’s employees to collect signatures under a ‘collective appeal’ to mitigate the measure of restraint for the president of their company.

To do this, they applied psychological pressure on employees, threatening them with dismissal and further ‘consequences’.

The SSU detained the head of Motor Sich JSC and the chief of one of the departments of the enterprise in October this year.

According to the investigation, the plant’s leadership established transnational channels for unlawful supply of wholesale consignments of Ukrainian aircraft engines to russia.

The pre-trial investigation is ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the involved to justice.

The SSU Counterintelligence and the SSU Main Investigative Directorate exposed and blocked the offence under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.