The money was part of a payment from Serhiy Kurchenko, who played one of the key roles in the team of former President Viktor Yanukovych.
A scheme of asset withdrawal from Ukraine by Viktor Yanukovych’s entourage, earlier published by Al Jazeera, involves former NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva, a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko, and Pavel Fuchs, a businessman from Ukraine who made his fortune in Moscow.
Three Ukrainian oligarchs traded part of around $1.5bn in illicit assets traced to cronies of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, an exclusive investigation by Al Jazeera revealed on Sunday. They did so as the war-torn country struggled to return suspected misappropriated funds to its coffers, according to Al Jazeera.
The Ukrainian Research Institute of Special Equipment and Forensic Examination at the Security Service of Ukraine has conducted a phonoscopic examination confirming the authenticity of voices on tapes with recorded wiretapped phone conversations between ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko.
Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has ruled to seize the UMH media holding owned by wanted, fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, according to a court ruling of December 28, published in the State Register of Court Rulings.
Fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko provided funds to sponsor protests of Mikheil Saakashvili’s "Movement of New Forces" through his business partner, Board Chairman of Brokbiznesbank Oleksandr Dynnyk, who has also fled to the Russian Federation, TSN reported Wednesday.
“Wiretap materials” that allegedly include a phone conversation between the leader of the "Movement of New Forces", former Odesa governor and ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, earlier published by the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), could be "comprised" of excerpts from multiple conversations, according to a phonoscopic expert Kyrylo Uskov, Ukrayinska Pravda reported.
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko says the prosecutor's office plans special confiscation of the UMH media holding owned by fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko.
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko claims leader of the Movement of New Forces Party Mikheil Saakashvili has held protest rallies to seize state power in Ukraine and assist members of the criminal gang of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko to stop their prosecution, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting has not extended licenses and stopped the broadcasting of 36 FM stations of UMH media holding owned by fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko, according to a member of the council Serhiy Kostinsky.
Today, July 21, the Court of Appeal in Odesa region overruled an appeal motion by representatives of JSC Odesa Oil Refinery, Energy and Gas Ukraine LLC, and a representative of Serhiy Kurchenko, a young oligarch close to Viktor Yanukovych who had fled to Russia along with the other members of the ousted ex-president’s entourage, following the Revolution of Dignity.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced that Odesa's Suvorivsky district court has ruled that PJSC Odesa oil refinery should be transferred to state ownership.
Prosecutor's Office in Odesa region has put on wanted list former general and executive directors of Odesa Oil Refinery, who were involved in the so-called "Kurchenko schemes" aimed at a theft of petroleum products, according to the press service of the prosecutor's office.
Fugitive Ukrainian businessman, one of the people from Viktor Yanukovych entourage, Serhiy Kurchenko may become a monopoly supplier of Russian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Ukraine, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant.