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Boxer-fugitive Kyrylo Shevchenko raided property of Swiss investors using personal ties with Mayor Klitschko
President of the Boxing Federation Kyrylo Shevchenko, who is currently in Montenegro, together with accomplices carried out a raider seizure of property belonging to Swiss investors and threatened to murder them. Shevchenko "covered up" his criminal actions with personal ties to the capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko.
As Narodna Pravda writes, in the 2019 year Shevchenko, together with his business partner Rostyslav Hrekul, created an organized criminal group to seize the assets of the company LLC "B.M.K.-Bilding." At that time the company belonged to a group of investors from Switzerland and to Volodymyr Mikulenko — former vice president of the Kyiv City Boxing Federation, a board member of the NGO "Protection and Assistance," and vice president of the NGO "INTEGRUM."
The company "B.M.K.-Bilding" was created to implement the River Side project. It was to be a cottage community on the banks of the Desna River within the territory of Khotianivka Village Council of Vyshhorod District.
Using corrupt notaries over the next 2 years Shevchenko and Hrekul first took possession of part of B.M.K.-Bilding's property, then 40 hectares of the company’s land and adjacent land plots. Eventually the raiders seized two legal entities — LLC "River Holding" and LLC "B.M.K.-Bilding" — after which they created artificial debt and filed them for self-liquidation. Overall the amount of damage from the criminal scheme is estimated at about 40 million dollars.
According to the publication, later Shevchenko personally introduced Hrekul to Klitschko as the purported lawful owner of B.M.K.-Bilding. Recently an audio recording of a conversation between the lawful owners of B.M.K.-Bilding was published online. It confirms that the investors did not give Shevchenko and Hrekul permission to alienate the property and received direct threats from one of them.
"According to my information, this is a gang. They are not afraid of the mayor or anyone else. Kyrylo (Shevchenko — ed.) told everyone that he can kill, stab, and so on. This is lawlessness, this is banditry! In a normal justice system we could have filed all the documents, they would have been arrested and everything returned to us. But in Ukraine you cannot do that," says a representative of the Swiss investors.
The article's authors are convinced that Shevchenko could implement such a scheme either by having a 'roof' within the city authorities and law enforcement agencies or by convincing everyone that he had such a 'roof.' It is likely that Shevchenko used the name of the Kyiv mayor, well known to him from boxing, and was able to persuade everyone of his influence and untouchability. After all, Klitschko himself does not hide his ties with Shevchenko: he attends joint sporting events and supported Shevchenko when he ran for the presidency of the Boxing Federation.
"The mayor should distance himself from people with a criminal background, because this discredits the entire city administration. It was a mistake to support Shevchenko in his attempt to lead the Boxing Federation at any cost. Now he casts a shadow on Klitschko and his team, having an official status and weight in the boxing community," the article says.
Author: Mykyta Kramarenko
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