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A Kyiv court granted investigators from the National Police temporary access to information from mobile operators as part of the investigation into the assassination attempt on the businessman from Dnipro and Cypriot citizen Vadym Yermolaev and his family members. This was reported by Glavkom with reference to the court register.
The investigation will examine electronic documents containing data on connections with 292 subscriber numbers for the period from 1 January 2025 to 5 August 2026. In particular, this concerns incoming and outgoing SMS messages (without disclosing their content), information on GPRS traffic (data transmission over frequency bands not occupied by voice communication) and Internet connections with IP addresses indicated.
In addition, the court granted law enforcement access to data on civil servants who, during January–May 2026, showed interest in information entered into the Unified State Demographic Register regarding Vadym Yermolaev and his family members who were harmed during the attempt in Monaco 29 June this year. The investigation obtained similar information about persons who viewed the “Arkan” system in relation to the businessman Yermolaev’s border crossings.
The court also allowed National Police investigators to copy documents at nine financial institutions concerning the movement of funds 25 of persons being checked for involvement in organizing the attempt on Yermolaev in Monaco.
We add that the investigation into the assassination attempt on Vadym Yermolaev is being conducted by a group of investigators of the National Police of Ukraine, which includes staff from the Main Investigative Department and investigative units of the Bila Tserkva, Pavlohrad, Ternopil, Kryvyi Rih and Ivano-Frankivsk district police departments.
As is known, on the evening of 29 June an explosion occurred in a residential building in Monaco. Three people were injured – the Ukrainian businessman under sanctions Vadym Yermolaev, his companion and his son. The main suspect identified by investigators was the 39-year-old Ukrainian Anastasiia Berezovska, whom Interpol declared internationally wanted. According to law enforcement, the woman spied on the businessman’s family disguised as a man and left a bag with an explosive device at the entrance to the building.
On 1 July Berezovska legally entered Ukraine through one of the checkpoints – there were no database triggers during the border crossing, including Interpol’s. Already on 6 July her body was found near Kyiv.
The investigation identified two people involved in the murder – the 33-year-old Main Intelligence Directorate employee Vladyslav Reut and former SBU officer Vitalii Zhykovych. According to the investigation, the men repeatedly transferred funds to Berezovska’s cryptocurrency and bank accounts, and on 9 July the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv remanded Zhykovych in custody without bail. The investigation also does not rule out both men’s involvement in the actual bombing.
In addition, the Security Service of Ukraine restored one of the key pieces of evidence in the attempted murder case in the Principality of Monaco. This concerns a video recording from a surveillance camera that the suspects tried to destroy after the crime.
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