The court decided to impose a fine of 588 million hryvnias on Vadym Chuchkovsky, the former bodyguard of the fifth president Petro Poroshenko, for violating customs regulations, and also ordered the confiscation of the proceeds of the offense — 38 million euros. The corresponding decision was issued by the judge of the Solomyan District Court of Kyiv, Iryna Vereshchinska, informs LAWYER POST.
The customs office appealed to the court, providing copies of the materials of the criminal proceedings of the State Bureau of Investigation, which concerns the abuse of official powers by former employees of the State Security Department, which, according to the investigation, acted in accordance with a previous conspiracy. Chuchkovskyi and two of his subordinates, UDO drivers Serhii Volevach and Ruslan Kramarenko, appear in the proceedings.
The investigation claims that on March 28, 2019, a few days before the first round of the presidential elections, UDO employees accepted 38 million euros at Zhulyany airport. The money was delivered from Moscow by Alexander Barimov, who is believed to be the business partner of the wife of ex-Nardeput Viktor Medvedchuk.
In response to these actions, lawyer Ihor Golovan stated that the authorities are taking officers of the State Security Department hostage to slander the leader of “European Solidarity” and the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko.
Golovan also emphasized that a new case is being fabricated against Poroshenko based on materials provided by the Russian FSB. According to him, it is about a staged video that the Ukrainian authorities allegedly received from the special services of the aggressor state.
