For the environment Poroshenko took the Prosecutor General of Ukraine: what happened

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine is interested in the environment of the current President Petro Poroshenko. We are talking about the former head of the National Bank Valeria Gontareva, the former head of the AP Boris Lozhkin, as well as the deputy head of the AP Alexey Filatov. They are all summoned for questioning because of possible fraud.

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What is the reason - understood OBOZREVATEL.

The main thing:

• President Poroshenko’s entourage is suspected of the machinations of a runaway oligarch Sergey Kurchenko;
• Valery Gontareva, Alexey Filatov and Boris Lozhkin may be involved in the case. None of them are planning to appear for interrogations.
• True, the lawyers Lozhkina never handed the promised suspicion. Allegedly they were informed about the cancellation of the investigative action due to the lack of authority.

What is the reason

Ever since 2013, it has been dragging around the machinations of runaway oligarch Sergey Kurchenko, whom the media called the “wallet” of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.

Sergey Kurchenko. Screenshot video YouTube / Corp._Info

He is accused of large-scale scams involving many high-ranking officials in recent years: through forgery of documents and various financial frauds in Naftogaz of Ukraine, Ukrnafta and Ukrgazvydobuvannya, where he stole liquefied gas and money worth more than 2 billion hryvnia (with exchange rate is about 8 UAH/$). Also, according to investigators, Kurchenko took 5 billion hryvnia from Naftogaz.

In March 2018, the General Prosecutor's Office received permission for a pre-trial investigation, and also announced that a fugitive oligarch was suspected. He is incriminated with 10 episodes of embezzlement of funds on a particularly large scale.

This is about:

• the theft of 787 million hryvnia from the National Bank, which were provided in the form of a stabilization loan to OJSC Real Bank, with subsequent legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime committed repeatedly;
• stealing money from Brokbusinessbank in the amount of 865 million hryvnia, by issuing loans to enterprises with signs of fictitiousness;
• frauds with the money of the “Agrarian Fund” for a total amount of more than 2 billion hryvnia, and so on.

What can be involved in the entourage of the president?

The first information about the possible involvement of the inner circle of the president to the scams appeared 28 March 2019, just a few days before the first round of elections. Thus, a troika of suspects was reported by one of the Ukrainian publications with reference to Konstantin Kulik, head of the procedural guidance section on criminal proceedings.

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Thus, Valeria Gontareva, together with the co-owner of the investment company ICU Konstantin Stetsenko, is charged with “assisting a criminal organization and assisting in the illegal acquisition of someone else’s property” - funds of PJSC “Agrarian Fund” for a total amount of UAH 2,069 billion, by concluding fake sales contracts with JSC “Brokbusinessbank” domestic government loan bonds.

It is worth noting that in January 2018, information about frauds appeared on international resources. Thus, the Qatari media holding Al Jazeera announced that the investment company ICU, whose board of directors was headed by the former head of the NBU, Valery Gontareva, allegedlyI was treating the runaway Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych to withdraw $ 1,5 billion from Ukraine in the period from 2012 to 2014 a year from Ukraine.

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Another suspicion, this time to Boris Lozhkin and Alexey Filatov, was announced for facilitating a criminal organization and legalization (laundering) of funds in the amount of more than $440 million, obtained through purchase and sale transactions of property and corporate rights of the Ukrainian Media Holding group of companies. .

According to the data of the same Al Jazeera, about a third of the proceeds from the transaction money are “dirty” money, because they were received as a loan from stolen funds. And the prosecutor's office of Austria took up this matter in 2016, which noticed strange transactions through offshore companies.

Petro Poroshenko and Boris Lozhkin. Photo: Depositphotos

“In order to pay Lozhkin and his partners, Kurchenko received a loan of 160 million dollars from a state bank. The prosecutor's office has established that this was done with the help of stolen assets, ”the article says.

After the publication of suspicions by prosecutor Konstantin Kulik, the leadership of the GPU refuted the statements of his employee. The speaker of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, Andrey Lysenko, noted on Facebook that reports of suspicion of Gontareva, Lozhkin, Stetsenko and Filatov demanded the presence of sufficient evidence, instructions from the senior group of prosecutors and personal presentation. Therefore, they were not there.

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The conflict around the prosecutor and the prosecutor general was complicated by the election campaign, as well as political disputes between the candidates. Therefore, many perceived the statement of Konstantin Kulik as part of a political struggle.

But literally the day after the second round of elections, 22 of April, the GPU still called Boris Lozhkin, Aleksey Filatov and Valery Gontareva for interrogations. As well as the ex-minister of ecology and natural resources, the owner of the private gas group Burisma Nikolai Zlochevsky and businessman Konstantin Stetsenko.

Suspicion Gontareva, Filatov and Lozhkin allegedly concerns the article on the promotion of participants in criminal organizations and the concealment of their activities. Gontareva’s suspicion also concerns the article on the embezzlement and theft of property, and Filatov and Lozhkin - the article on the legalization of proceeds from crime.

Alexey Filatov. Photo: Depositphotos

At the same time, none of these top officials is going to be interrogated. Alexey Filatov has already stated that the GPU investigators have no reason to call for questioning. Boris Lozhkin was told that he did not receive any subpoenas to the GPU. And Valeria Gontareva urged prosecutors to “fly to her in London”.

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“Despite the obvious violations of the procedure for calling our client and in order to prevent further manipulations, today we arrived at the prosecutor’s office at a certain time. However, the investigator announced the cancellation of the investigative action due to lack of authority,” the lawyers said.

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