Zhevago Kostiantyn Valentynovych

$113 million through an offshore, bankruptcy of Finance and Credit, and a bribe to the head of the Supreme Court

From 2007 to 2015, Zhevago organized a scheme to withdraw $113 million from his own bank Finance and Credit: an offshore company controlled by him opened credit lines in foreign banks, and the bank acted as guarantor. When the offshore company failed to fulfill its obligations, foreign banks wrote off funds from correspondent accounts of the Ukrainian bank. In 2015, the National Bank of Ukraine declared the bank insolvent — the state lost tens of billions thanks to refinancing by the National Bank. In 2023, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) established that Zhevago, through a lawyer, organized the transfer of a $2.7 million bribe to the head of the Supreme Court Knyazev for a decision in favor of the oligarch in the case concerning the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant. After Knyazev was caught "red-handed," Zhevago received another suspicion. In September 2023, investigators opened proceedings for aiding the aggressor state. Despite arrests of yachts, a plane, 44 legal entities, 124 real estate properties, and 99 movable assets — Zhevago continues to manage them through proxies from France.

Courchevel, two extradition refusals, and interrogation in Paris

On December 27, 2022, French police detained Zhevago at the Courchevel ski resort. The court in Chambéry released him on bail for €1 million. The French court twice — in 2023 and 2025 — refused Ukraine's extradition requests, citing martial law. In March 2026, Ukrainian investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation personally arrived in Paris and handed Zhevago a new suspicion for withdrawing 519 million hryvnias. The arrested assets include 49 resident companies, rights of 19 foreign companies, land plots, and real estate worth tens of billions of hryvnias.