At the initiative of the SSU, court has arrested additional assets of Medvedchuk and Marchenko, which were managed from russia.

The assets seized by court’s decision include:

• corporate rights of an LLC with the authorized capital of UAH 38 mln (USD 1,1 mln);
• bank accounts with UAH 1.3 mln (USD 36,000);
• two land plots (​​3 and 5 hectares);
• premises of two hotel complexes (​​4.5 and 2.4 thousand square meters).

Beneficial owners of these assets are russian citizens Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko.

The relevant court’s decision was made based on the material of the Security Service of Ukraine, which documents and exposes schemes of laundering russian money in Ukraine to finance anti-Ukrainian activities.

The scheme included transferring funds from russian banks to an LLC registered in Ukraine and owned by a russian citizen.

This money came under the guise of maintenance and rent payments for two hotel complexes in Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions, which, through several Ukrainian companies, are owned by Oksana Marchenko.

During the pre-trial investigation, the SSU collected irrefutable evidence that they had been managed directly from russia, and established the entire chain of these russian entities.

The pre-trial investigation is ongoing under the two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• 110-2.1: financing of actions committed for the purpose of violent change or overthrow of constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of territory or state border of Ukraine;
• 209.2: legalization (laundering) of property obtained by criminal means.

The SSU Office in Ivano-Frankivsk region has been working on the case under the procedural supervision of Ivano-Frankivsk Region Prosecutor’s Office.