The Croatian District Court of Split decided to hand over the Royal Romance ship to Ukraine, which previously belonged to the under-sanctioned Viktor Medvedchuk. The basis is a request for international legal assistance.
Medvedchuk's yacht is already being prepared for sale
ASAM has received approval to re-examine this asset.
An assurance was received that Croatia expects the ship to be handed over to Ukraine as soon as possible. In the opinion of the Croatian side, there are no legal obstacles to the implementation of this intention, the message says.
After carrying out an appropriate assessment of the seized asset, ARMA plans to realize its realization.
The sale of this lot will be the first example of the sale of seized assets located abroad, ASAM chief Olena Duma explained.
She said Medvedchuk's yacht was leaving for a technical inspection on January 25, 2024.
Medvedchuk's multimillion-dollar assets were stolen from "arrest"
In July 2022, the court decided to seize the shares of the entourage of the Ukrainian ex-deputy, suspected of treason, Viktor Medvedchu,k in three companies that own large land plots on the banks of the Dnipro in Kyiv. However, law enforcement agencies did not bring the matter to an end. Instead of confiscation and sale, assets worth millions of dollars ended up in the hands of third parties. It seems a businessman who has connections with the deputy head of the president's office, Oleg Tatarov, according to the Bihus.Info investigation.
According to journalists, 50% of the three firms — "Akadem-club", "Orest", and "Osokorky-7" — should have been arrested, but in fact, this did not happen. The court proved the direct connection of the companies with Medvedchuk and his wife, Oksana Marchenko, through the Cypriot structure Pilawer Limited, which was owned by a proxy of Taras Kozak, one of Medvedchuk's main associates. The main asset is long-term lease contracts for vast plots of land in Osokorky.
During his arrest, Kozak shared the "Academy Club" with a Cypriot firm associated with Vadym Stolar — also from the pro-Russian OP-FL, like the previously mentioned ex-deputies. The owners of the companies "Orest" and "Osokorky-7" were also businessman Valerii Mishchenko and the brother of the former parliamentarian Oleksandr Konstantinovskyi.
As the authors found out, in the fall, Oleksandr Bilyavskyi acquired all the assets of Medvedchuk's entourage from the Kherson region, whose pages on social networks, according to the journalist, "quite strongly suggest that he could not buy shares worth one and a half hundred million hryvnias."
According to the investigation, during the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, the new owner was also "thrown out" of all firms. Thus, "Akadem Club" wholly passed into the hands of Petros Tohramadjian from Bulgaria, who has a criminal past and other mentions in the mass media unrelated to development. Vladimir Putin's best man's share in Osokorky-7 was given to Vadym Ivanov from Latvia. Businessman Valery Mishchenko completely rewrote the Orest company — he is the only one who initially retained shares in the two companies.
Bihus.Info noted that the offices were supposed to be under arrest, so their owners could not change. Oleksandr Bilyavskyi from the Kherson region tried to challenge the change of owners through the courts — his lawyers "helped" journalists figure out "where he came from." These were, as reported, lawyers from the entourage of the famous Kyiv developer Vlada Molchanova and Stolar.
At the same time, it was found that the registration actions for all three firms were performed by the same notary from Kyiv for three people — Mishchenko, Togramadzhyan and Ivanov. The investigators assume that the actual character in all this was only Mishchenko, listed in state registers as the owner or co-owner of a dozen or so very different companies, some of which were created as early as the 2000s.
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