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Following Saakashvili: who can return to Ukraine

Ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili 29 May flew in to Ukraine. On the eve of President Zelensky returned him Ukrainian citizenship.

In 2015, Saakashvili received Ukrainian citizenship and the position of head of the Odessa regional administration. Two years later, Petro Poroshenko suspended the decree on granting citizenship to the policy, at the same time Saakashvili was banned from entering the country until the 2021 year. For the past few months, Saakashvili has lived in the EU under a residence permit, which he received as the spouse of a citizen of the Netherlands.

Several more politicians and businessmen may return to Ukraine under President Zelensky, writes “Currently,«.

Igor Kolomoisky. Photo: Depositphotos

Businessman Igor Kolomoisky is already in the country. He arrived on the night of May 16 – after the second round of elections, but before Zelensky’s inauguration. Under Poroshenko, Igor Kolomoisky consistently lost control over the state-owned enterprise Ukrnafta, and then ceased to be the owner of the largest PrivatBank, which was nationalized due to financial problems in December 2016. Before this, the bank issued many dubious loans worth more than four billion US dollars to shell companies associated with Kolomoisky.

Andrei Portnov - from 2011 to 2014, was an adviser to the fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych, convicted in absentia in Ukraine for treason. In February, 2014, after the bloody events on Maidan, when the Russian operation to annex the peninsula had already begun in Crimea, Portnov left Kiev for Moscow, and then moved to Vienna, where another fugitive Ukrainian lives - oligarch Dmitry Firtash, accused by the US authorities of laundering of money.

On May 19 of this year, Andrei Portnov posted a photo from Boryspil on his Facebook with the caption “Everything is just beginning!”

Shortly before returning to Kiev, in which Portnov moves with the hired armed officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he met in Vienna with the oligarch Kolomoisky, another returnee of recent days.

Photo: facebook.com/Olexander Lazorko

On May 29, it became known that the former head of the board of Ukrtransnafta, Alexander Lazorko, disappeared from the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, which includes people who are wanted. In 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine began an investigation against him. Lazorko was suspected of organizing a scheme to pump oil from the main pipeline. Alexander Lazorko himself and his family have been living in London for about three years, where he asked for political asylum. But now, it seems, he may return too.

Another well-known fugitive, Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Onishchenko, was still in the Ministry of Internal Affairs base on May 29. Last week, he said he was ready to return to Ukraine and take part in a court hearing in the case brought against him by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. However, today Onishchenko announced that the court had ruled his episode as a separate proceeding, so his arrival was postponed. Onishchenko is accused of the so-called “gas case”. He fled the country in the summer of 2016.

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Photo: Yanukovych's press service

Even the fourth president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was sentenced in absentia in Ukraine to 13 years of imprisonment for treason, after Zelensky’s victory, said he wanted to return to Ukraine, but only after the annulment was canceled, explained his lawyer Vitaly Serdyuk. Viktor Yanukovych allegedly lives in a country house near Peredelkino near Moscow.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • May 28 President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky returned citizenship to former Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili.
  • Saakashvili left Georgia in the 2013 year, where several criminal cases were opened against him, in some of which he was sentenced in absentia to prison terms. In 2015, Saakashvili joined Ukrainian politics after receiving the position of governor of the Odessa region.
  • However, already in the 2016 year, then-President Petro Poroshenko dismissed Saakashvili, saying that he not only failed to fulfill promises to develop the region, but also significantly worsened the economic performance of the region. In 2017 year Poroshenko Saakashvili deprived of Ukrainian citizenship. Later, the former president of Georgia filed a complaint with the Ukrainian court, but she has not been considered until now.
  • After the presidential elections in Ukraine, which were won by Vladimir Zelensky, Saakashvili announced his intention to return to the country. At the same time, the State Border Service stated that it has no legal grounds for entry. Earlier Zelensky promised grant citizenship to allwho is ready to "build a new, strong and successful Ukraine."
  • Last year, the authorities of Ukraine Saakashvili sent to Poland, from whose territory he had a year earlier illegally entered Ukraine, breaking through the border guard cordons and law enforcement. The Border Guard Service of Ukraine banned Saakashvili from entering the country before 2021.

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