The Ukrainian court arrested the secret property of the wife of politician Viktor Medvedchuk Oksana Marchenko worth 400 million hryvnia (about 910 million rubles). This was reported in a press release from the SBU.
The court’s decision applies to 6.8% of the shares of OAO Electrometallurgical Plant Dneprospetsstal bearing his name. Kuzmin” in Zaporozhye, owned by AM Marchenko through offshore companies. It was noted that the enterprise is of strategic importance and produces close to a thousand steel and metal products.
“The arrest of the goods will protect them from being re-registered as candidates and will allow them to be transferred in favor of our state in the future,” the Ukrainian ministry said in a statement.
On February 7, the SBU spent 11 searches in Kiev, companies associated with Medvedchuk’s wife.
In the period from 2018 to 2022, Medvedchuk headed the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life party. Since May 2021, Medvedchuk has been under house arrest, but escaped at the end of February 2022, Ukrainian law enforcement officers detained him in April. He faced up to 15 years in prison for treason. On September 22, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, announced the release of the Ukrainian politician during the exchange of prisoners of war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. he is now resides in Moscow.