Ukrainian Prosecutors Widen Investigation Of Kremlin-Allied Lawmaker Medvedchuk

10/9/21
Ukrainian prosecutors said they had broadened a criminal investigation into pro-Russian lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk, accusing him of colluding to finance separatist forces in the eastern Donbas region. The October 8 announcement increases pressure on Medvedchuk, whom prosecutors initially targeted in May with allegations of treason. At a joint briefing in Kyiv, Prosecutor-General Iryna Venediktova accused Medvedchuk of conspiring with officials from former President Petro Poroshenko's government to buy coal from mines in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, as a way to finance the separatists. "We are talking about the sale of state interests and the financing of Russian terrorists," Ivan Bakanov, the head of the state security service, said at the briefing. "While our soldiers were being killed at the front, the state sent suitcases of cash to the leaders of terrorist organizations," Venediktova said.

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Rogue Valley said:

Ukrainian Prosecutors Widen Investigation Of Kremlin-Allied Lawmaker Medvedchuk

Ukrainian prosecutors said they had broadened a criminal investigation into pro-Russian lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk, accusing him of colluding to finance separatist forces in the eastern Donbas region.

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Medvedchuk is also being squeezed by the new anti-oligarch law. Heading the Opposition Platform-For Life in the parliament, Medvedchuk is Putin's gray cardinal in Ukraine.

He always puts Russian interests ahead of Ukraine. Putin is also godfather to his daughter Daryna.

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Juin said:

It is also proof positive of suppression of ethnic Russian minorities in Ukraine by the ethnic Ukrainian majority.

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