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Office Instead of Housing: Kravchenko's Registered Address in Vienna Turned Out to Be a Legal Address for Firms
Former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko appears to have even resorted to violations regarding his declared place of residence while in Vienna.
This is evidenced by a piece from Ukrainska Pravda journalist Mykhailo Tkach titled "WienProsecutor. Ukrainska Pravda Found Ruslan Kravchenko in Austria."
The matter is that the address listed in the Austrian register document is not the former Ukrainian prosecutor general’s place of residence, as the law requires.
Apartment No. 12 in the building on Jordangasse, 7 – is not a residence but the office of CS Corporate Services GmbH. On its own website the firm offers four services: domiciliation, i.e., a legal address for Austrian GmbHs, secretarial services, management services, and the sale of "shelf" companies already registered and ready to be transferred to a new owner.
The domiciliation description states that an address in Vienna's first district, a few minutes' walk from the central Stephansplatz, is registered with the commercial court, tax office, and magistrate, and that staff receive clients' mail and, according to their instructions, forward it unopened, scan it, or respond to it themselves.
At least two dozen other legal entities are registered at the same address. Among them are structures of real international companies, such as Duracell Austria GmbH or KPLER GmbH, but the majority are little-known: Numitor, Febania, Nobeka, Furninet, Code Panda IT Solutions, and others.
Kravchenko and his wife may have taken this step to conceal their actual place of residence in Vienna.
Registration in Vienna may also indicate that Kravchenko plans to legalize his status specifically in the Austrian capital, which, as is known, does not extradite citizens suspected in Ukraine.
Mykhailo Tkach notes that, while speaking with an influential official about the Austrian fate of Ukrainian officials, he heard an ironic remark: "Soon enough—and a whole Ukrainian government in exile will gather in Vienna."
Besides the prosecutor general, who appears to have very recently registered in Vienna, former head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Oleksandr Tupitsky, former head of the National Bank Kyrylo Shevchenko, former MP Andriy Kholodov, and many other "former" officials already live there—most of them forced by the war or seeking to avoid years of punishment, stuck in one of Europe's best cities.
"In a city with no air-raid alerts, ballistics, suspicions from NABU and SAP, or the need to post bail. In a city that does not extradite suspects to Ukraine. For now," the article's author adds.
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