2023-07-01 16:47:01
One of the members of this network that is already being investigated is the military commissar of the city of Odessa, Yevgeni Borisov.
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01 jul 2023 . Updated at 4:47 p.m.
The Ukrainian press has dubbed Spain Battalion to the millionaires plot accompanied by their children who have refugee in the Iberian Peninsula to be away from the war and hide their fortunes. The name comes from the place of destination of the fugitives, but it is also intended as an irony about the cowardice of those investigated for escaping the war effort to face the Russian invasion.
One of the members of this network that is already being investigated is the military commissar from the city de Odessa, Yevgeny Borisov, who in April was dismissed from his posts. No explanation was offered at the time for this decision, but the investigation by the kyiv newspaper Ukrainska Pravda has revealed that this soldier bought himself a villa in Marbella valued at three million euros and put it in the name of his mother. In addition, he acquired a mercedes valued at a quarter of a million. All these operations were carried out once the troops of Vladimir Putin they had crossed the border and Ukraine was fighting for its survival. The kyiv authorities have already asked their Spanish counterparts to help them investigate the financial movements of this soldier.
The Ukrainian daily has revealed more dark affairs linked to Borisov. The journalists traveled to Marbella and there they located a son of his driver. This young man, of draft age, works as a driver and assistant to the mother of the military commissar. But the report also shows the descendants of another Ukrainian millionaire, Oleksandr Herehawho resides in a luxury estate from the Castellón town of I’m very happy.
Yanukovych’s Shadow
They are not the only cases of fleeing to Spain that appear in journalistic investigations. In a luxury development from the city of Valencia they found Dimitri Sennychenko and his family. This tycoon, who was already in hiding in Monaco, is accused of having illegally appropriated 13.5 million euros from Ukrainian companies. Reporters have also been on the trail of senior Ukrainian officials that were related to former president Victor Yanukovychwho held the country’s leadership between 2010 and 2014. People from his circle have been portrayed in luxury villas in Valencia and Malaga. Yanukovych’s name was heard again in the first days of the Russian invasion, since intelligence sources indicated that he was the man chosen by Putin to place him as a puppet of a puppet government in Kiev if he had managed to conquer the city.
The images of the report on the corrupt plot of the Spain Battalion they are especially bloody for the Ukrainian population. The fugitives live in areas of alto standing and they travel in convertible Mercedes between sunny beaches and luxury establishments. Its reality is not that of a country subjected to the constant shelling of the Russians, with problems of supplying electricity or drinking water, and in the uncertainty of what their destiny will be.
These investigations, on the other hand, put the magnifying glass on one of the president’s biggest problems, Volodímir Zelenskiwhen managing their contacts with Europe, the United States and England to ask for help. The corruption of the country es one of the highest in the region and the Kiev government puts all its efforts into cleaning up its image and preventing the West from limiting its support for fear that it will end up in the hands of corrupt people. In May of this year he already organized a purge in the Supreme Courtwhere a plot of illegal bribery. Two months earlier, he created within the Ministry of Defense the corruption prevention department with the aim of prosecuting the diversion of money and humanitarian aid.
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