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The court, under the initiative of the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR), imposed a seizure on corporate rights and accounts of economic entities belonging to relatives of Ukrainian parliament members Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak. This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation. The seized accounts contained more than 40 million UAH.
The first searches of Taras Kozak’s and Viktor Medvedchuk’s brothers were conducted by DBR employees last week — 27 April. Then investigators searched real estate owned by Bohdan Kozak, Taras Kozak’s brother, and Sergey Medvedchuk, Viktor Medvedchuk’s brother, as well as property of companies owned by the men. The document obtained by Bihus.Info stated that investigators planned to search more than twenty real estate objects in Lviv and the Lviv region.
Six more addresses were searched in the days that followed. One of them is in Kyiv region, the rest in Lviv region, according to DBR.
The searches were conducted within a criminal proceeding on suspected abuse of power and violation of rules on the subsoil use or legalization of proceeds obtained by crime (Article 364, Article 240, Part 2, Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The Kozak and Medvedchuk relatives are also subjects in a criminal proceeding regarding illegal sand extraction at two quarries in Lviv region.
“During the investigative actions, valuable paintings, antique items, other valuables were seized. Moving forward, the DBR will raise the issue of imposing seizure on them and transferring them to the National Asset Management Agency,” DBR said.
A few weeks ago, Bihus.Info showed a review of the wealth of the family of the anti-Establishment deputy Taras Kozak. For example, Taras Kozak’s brother Bohdan owns expensive apartments and mansions in Lviv region. Taras Kozak’s mother owns apartments, land in a resort area of the region, and companies that hold a vacation complex in Lviv region and a restaurant. Law enforcement searched all addresses.
Taras Kozak was not only politically close to Viktor Medvedchuk but also in business matters. In phone conversations released by Bihus.Info in May last year, Medvedchuk calls Taras Kozak “a deputy from his group,” says he is ready to obtain a Russian passport if needed to re-register a deposit in the occupied Crimea, and mentions Kozak’s involvement as his trusted person in all areas of commercial activity—from trading occupied coal to re-registering the “diesel pipe.” Kozak is currently in hiding, most likely in Moscow. Viktor Medvedchuk was recently detained by the Security Service of Ukraine while trying to leave Ukraine. Both Kozak and Medvedchuk are currently suspects in treason.
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