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With Yanukovych Russia took in 5 thousand fugitives from Ukraine; one in five buys property in Moscow priced up to $30 million
Virtually the entire circle around former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych is now on the run and has already settled in Russia. Former Ukrainian officials have bought apartments and houses in Moscow and the nearby Moscow region and have already obtained Russian passports and permanent jobs.
The list of those who hurriedly moved from Ukraine to the territory of the “aggressor” is striking. In addition to the ex-president Viktor Yanukovych himself, who settled on Rublyovka in the cottage community “Landscape,” the following now live in Russia:
Former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko,
Former Defense Minister Pavlo Lebedyev,
Former Justice Minister Olena Lukash,
Former head of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence Hryhoriy Illyashov (husband of Olena Lukash),
Former head of the Security Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Yakymenko,
Former first deputy head of the presidential administration Andriy Portnov,
Former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka,
Former first vice prime minister Serhiy Arbuzov,
Former Minister of Education Dmytro Tabachnyk.
As “Nasha Versiya” reports, the list could go on for a long time — in total there are about 5000 people including children and household members.
As the publication was told by former prefect of the Northern Administrative District of the capital Oleg Mitvol, “after Maidan and the start of the anti-terrorist operation in southeastern Ukraine, former officials who held high posts under Yanukovych generally all moved here to us; most of them intend to settle here for a long time, buy housing and obtain Russian citizenship.”
About 40% of the official refugees from Ukraine buy property in Moscow priced from one to two million dollars. Another approximately 40% invest in residential properties from two to five million dollars. The remaining 20% account for large deals — up to 30 million dollars.
Wealthy Ukrainian citizens have also taken two-thirds of the market for all rented elite Moscow apartments. They are primarily interested in the Prechistenka and Ostozhenka districts in Moscow and the Novorizhskoye direction in the Moscow region.
Many of the “refugees” buy housing without hiding. Thus, the former first deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Andriy Portnov, who bought elite housing in his own name, was almost kidnapped by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and forcibly taken back to his former homeland.
The son of former Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov, current Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Azarov, bought in the spring a plot of land of 2014 in the Istra district of Moscow region, in the gated community “Monolit.”
True, the plot 35 with an area of 4000 square meters is now re-registered under Eduard Fathullin — the father of the wife of the ex-prime minister’s son, Liliya Azarova. The approximate cost of such a house is about eight million dollars.
The family of former head of the Security Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Yakymenko recently purchased a second apartment in Moscow. The three-room residence was registered in the name of Yakymenko’s son-in-law — Anatoliy Abramenko.
Former National Bank of Ukraine head and former first vice prime minister Serhiy Arbuzov recently headed the association “Center for the Study of Economic and Sociocultural Development of the CIS Countries, Central and Eastern Europe,” registered by him in Saint Petersburg. Allegedly Arbuzov’s new apartment is also located there, while in Moscow he rents housing.
Nashi Groshi
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