Court seizes riverside land plots from ex-MP Viktor Medvedchuk’s wife
The Economic Court of Kyiv Oblast has granted a motion filed by the Kyiv regional prosecutor’s office to reassert state ownership of land plots on the banks of the Dnipro River which were illegally owned by former Ukrainian MP Viktor Medvedchuk’s wife, Oksana Marchenko, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Telegram on May 19.
According to the agency, the plots, totalling 9.5 hectares, are valued at over UAH 204 million ($5.5 million).
The prosecutors proved in court that part of the riverside forest area in the Boryspil district, Kyiv Oblast, had been privately owned – contrary to the requirements of the law.
Later, the land was added to the list of legal entities whose beneficiary is Marchenko.
Taking into account the violation of legal requirements, the regional prosecutor’s office appealed to the court to seize these properties back from Marchenko.
Marchenko is wanted by Ukrainian law enforcement. Ukraine’s SBU security service has charged her with “financing actions committed with the aim of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order, seizure of state power, or changing the state border of Ukraine” (Part 3 of Article 110-2 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code).
On Feb. 7, reports emerged that Marchenko’s companies had financed the Russian National Guard and the Russian Interior Ministry in occupied Crimea.
Later, she was summoned to the SBU’s office in Ivano-Frankivsk for questioning.
Marchenko fled Ukraine a few days before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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