The State Bureau of Investigation, the Office of the Prosecutor General and the National Police could not confirm whether Zhevago was put on the international wanted list through Interpol and whether investigators are now trying to extradite him to Ukraine. This is stated in the investigation of “Business Censor” with reference to the answers of law enforcement agencies.
DBR wrote a reply about the secrecy of the investigation, although back in July 2021, the agency publicly announced in a press release that Interpol had published a red alert about the oligarch.
The National Police reported that they corresponded with the authorities of foreign states on Zhevago “on matters within the scope of INTERPOL”.
And the UCP stated that the pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings against Zhevago was generally stopped in connection with the international search for the suspect.
“The Main Investigation Department of the State Bureau of Investigation is conducting a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings No. 62 019 000 000 000 888 on suspicion of Zh. 27 h. 5 art. 191, part. From Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The pre-trial investigation in the specified criminal proceedings was stopped in connection with the international search for the suspect. The pre-trial investigation body conducts a number of investigative and other procedural actions aimed at establishing the whereabouts of the suspect, including within the framework of international cooperation”, – says the response to journalists from the prosecutor’s office.
Moreover, as BC journalists note, there is no Zhevago’s name on the Interpol website about declaring him wanted. This was also stated by the press service of the oligarch. At the same time, the location of Zhevago has never been a secret to society. He lived in Dubai, visited Switzerland and Great Britain.
In August 2022, Ukrayinska Pravda published an investigation by the Monaco Battalion. Journalists found Konstantin Zhevago on his own yacht called “Z” worth about $70 million.
After that, the DBR was forced to declare that they were allegedly taking measures to detain and extradite to Ukraine one of the defendants in the journalistic investigation, suspected in the criminal proceedings of the Bureau of illegal embezzlement.
In the same time “The DBR and the prosecutor’s office could apply the so-called special investigation in absentia. It is used when the suspect is hiding from the investigation and is wanted. Then the materials of the accusation can be submitted to the court. And, accordingly, seek a fair verdict there. But the guards decided to just stop the case. And they refused to answer the question of the Business Censor about why there is no investigation in absentia”, — noted in the investigation.
According to journalists, “the absurdity of the situation is that the state of Ukraine has a lot of evidence of the involvement of the oligarch and the management of his companies in fraudulent schemes. But it seems that the DBR and the Office of the Prosecutor General are doing everything impossible to ensure that Zhevago continues to carelessly wander around on a yacht between expensive resorts.
DBR announced suspicion in absentia in the mentioned criminal proceedings to Konstantin Zhevago in September 2019. The oligarch then managed to go abroad. We are talking about the withdrawal of $113 million (now it is more than UAH 4 billion) from the bankrupt Finance and Credit bank controlled by him.
However, the damage caused by the bankruptcy of “Finance and Credit” is much greater. According to the BC Fund for Guaranteeing Deposits of Individuals, the bank owes UAH 31 billion to creditors. Of these, they did not receive 27.5 billion hryvnia. In particular, the oligarch owes UAH 7.5 billion to the DGF. The debt to the NBU is about UAH 6 billion. These bankruptcy funds went to finance the business empire of the bank owner, Zhevago. According to the Fund’s estimates, out of the UAH 40 billion of the loan portfolio, more than UAH 23 billion was issued to persons associated with Zhevago.
In particular, “In 2015, more than four hundred million hryvnias of credit was received by the Stakhanov Carriage Works. It also belonged to Zhevago. But there are nuances. This plant was occupied in 2014. And it was already under the control of an armed terrorist group. What kind of loan in 2015 could we talk about? That is, obvious signs of financing terrorism and the occupying troops of the Russian Federation. But the law enforcement officers here do not notice anything. No one is investigating a criminal case on this fact, – noted in the plot “Business Censor”.
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