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Six refusals, one Lincoln, and one phone call — who in Zaporizhzhia Kuzmenko’s press conference was named personally.
In the first part we asked: what exactly is the prosecutor protecting who hasn’t signed the indictment in the case of an attempt on a pregnant woman’s life for half a year? The answer, as it turns out, doesn’t lie in a single office. In Zaporizhzhia, businessman Oleg Kuzmenko named 5 specific officials. They are all from different branches of power. All of them, according to the victim’s logic, are links in the same chain.
⚖️ A coincidence is when a judge denies investigators a search once. A pattern is when it happens six times. A system is when, alongside those six refusals, the deputy head of the regional police receives a call from the businessman who would have been affected by that same search.
☑️ Yaroslav Mykhalchuk — head of the Zaporizhzhia regional prosecutor’s office
All of the victim’s appeals, he claims, were returned with “form letters.” According to Kuzmenko’s statement, the decision to sign the indictment against the organizer of the attack should have landed on his desk.
☑️ Viktoriia Ovcharenko — deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia district prosecutor’s office
She signed a reply citing “the absence of cases provided for in p. 1–13 ch.1 art. 276 of the Criminal Procedure Code” — in other words, the absence of grounds to serve an indictment. The draft indictment, Kuzmenko claims, had already been sent to the prosecutor six months earlier.
☑️ Viktoriia Kalyuzhna — judge, former chair of the Komunar District Court of Zaporizhzhia
Kuzmenko alleges she refused investigators permission to conduct a search in this criminal proceeding six times. The orders of the investigative judge of the appellate court regarding covert investigative actions, the victim says, were not
executed.
☑️ Yuliia Halushchenko — head of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Zaporizhzhia
Kuzmenko publicly raised the question of the need to check the circumstances of her purchase of a Lincoln Corsair from the businessman he believes is the organizer. The price, the victim claims, is far below market value.
☑️ Pavlo Karabuta — deputy head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Zaporizhzhia region
According to Kuzmenko, on 23 May 2026 he received a phone call from that same businessman. In the presence of the police officers who were guarding the victim’s family, the phrase was spoken: “On Monday Pavlo Ivanovych will explain the rules of the game to you.” This episode, according to Kuzmenko’s reasoning, prompted his decision to go public with a press conference.
Kuzmenko’s decision is not the speech of a hurt person. It’s a map of distributed interests. One prosecutorial vertical, one judicial, one police — and one criminal proceeding for all. Legally each episode can be explained separately. Collected together, they form a pattern that in compliance practice is called institutional capture: a system where formal procedures work, but the outcome is always the same.
The press conference closed off the Zaporizhzhia regional prosecutor’s office’s ability to “quietly continue the investigation.” Now any decision — to sign the indictment or not — becomes a public political act. And it will be evaluated not only in Zaporizhzhia and not only in Kyiv.
In the next piece — the money for which, according to the victim’s version, the shooting took place. A complex on Kryposna Street, 2-yr. Valuation of the 2019 — no less than 3 million dollars. Registered to the ultimate beneficiary in August 2021. The shopping mall project “Khortytsia MO” on 145 000 m² with frontage on the first line of the Embankment Highway. We will show the full scheme.
To be continued...
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