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As of 3 August, the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies investigating the criminal cases concerning the assassination attempt on businessman Vadym Yermolaev in Monaco and the murder of the suspect in that attempt, Anastasiia Berezovska, have not received responses from their foreign counterparts to requests for cooperation.
This was reported by interlocutors of Ukrainska Pravda familiar with the course of the investigation.
In late 10 July, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko held a working online meeting with the Prosecutor General of the Principality of Monaco, Stéphane Thibaut, with the participation of the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police, and the competent authorities of Monaco.
During the meeting the Ukrainian side informed about the progress of the pretrial investigation, the established circumstances, and the detention of suspects in the criminal case concerning the murder of Berezovska, and initiated the creation of a joint investigative team (JIT) in the case of the attack on the Yermolaev family in Monaco, emphasizing the importance of doing this within a short timeframe to effectively investigate the case.
As sources told Ukrainska Pravda, following the meeting the parties agreed to an operational exchange of information and investigative materials.
On the third and 10 July, the Office of the Prosecutor General sent two requests for international legal assistance to the competent authorities of the Principality of Monaco.
In the requests, Ukraine asked to provide criminal case materials, witness statements, results of examinations, photo and video materials, information about persons involved in the crime, data on the explosive device, as well as information about mobile terminals and subscriber numbers that may have been used during the preparation and commission of the crime.
On 29 July, the Ukrainian side additionally informed of its readiness to promptly transfer to the competent authorities of Monaco all available materials of the criminal case, including the results of inspections, identifications, forensic medical, molecular genetic, and ballistic examinations, as well as other collected evidence.
On 31 July, the Office of the Prosecutor General received from the competent authorities of the Principality of Monaco an international legal request asking to provide certain materials from both criminal cases, in particular interrogation protocols and other investigative (search) action records, expert conclusions, and to carry out a number of additional investigative actions.
At the same time, as of 3 August, no responses had been received by Ukraine to its requests for international legal assistance, nor had a decision on creating a joint investigative team (JIT) been communicated to Ukraine.
... On 29 June at about 21:00 an explosion occurred in Monaco, injuring three people, two of whom suffered very serious wounds. Sources in business circles quoted by Ukrainska Pravda reported that this concerned the sanctioned Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaev and his relatives.
After the explosion, a large-scale operation began to find the suspected person who planted the explosive device — this person was captured on surveillance cameras. It was believed that this person had managed to leave for the territory of France. Later, journalists found that the suspect was a woman who may have been presenting herself as a man.
The media reported that the investigation in Monaco into the attempt on Yermolaev was considering a version involving the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
On 3 July, Interpol announced an international search for the 39-year-old Ukrainian citizen Anastasiia Berezovska. According to Monaco law enforcement, she was suspected of installing the explosive device that severely wounded Yermolaev and his relatives.
On 7 July it became known that Berezovska had been found murdered and buried near Kyiv.
That same day the National Police, the SBU, the Main Directorate of Intelligence, and the Office of the Prosecutor General reported that they had detained two persons on suspicion of murdering the woman wanted by Interpol. The investigation assumes that the men may also have been involved in the attempt on the Ukrainian businessman in Monaco, since there is data that they repeatedly transferred funds to Berezovska's cryptocurrency and bank accounts.
According to the investigation, Berezovska was killed on 3 July near the village of Yuriiv in Kyiv region by Main Directorate of Intelligence employee Vladyslav Reut and his accomplice, former SBU officer Vitalii Zhykovych.
On 9 July, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv placed the suspects in Berezovska's murder, Reut and Zhykovych, in custody without the right to bail.
According to sources close to the investigation, the investigation believes that the organizers of the terrorist act in Monaco are the handlers of the suspect in organizing the attempt on the sanctioned businessman Vadym Yermolaev — Vitalii Zhykovych and Vladyslav Reut.
Image above: Director of Monaco's Public Security Service Eric Arella with a photo of the Ukrainian suspect Anastasiia Berezovska. Photo Getty Images
"Argument"
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The investigation into the terrorist act in Monaco and the murder of agent Berezovska by her own handlers carefully conceals the motives for the crime and the client(s)
Mafia, banditry, unprofessionalism and savagery: a woman's corpse was found near Kyiv; she was suspected of the attempt on Yermolaev in Monaco
The lawyer of the killer in the Yermolaev case is connected to a Russian citizen with whom Budanov and Zelensky's assistant Levchenko lived — Levchenko
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