MP Nestor Shufrych was suspected of financing the Russian Guard in the temporarily occupied Crimea. It is worth noting that Shufrych is already suspected of treason.
Nestor Shufrych received a new suspicion
The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), documented that Shufrych set up a financing scheme for Russian occupation groups in the temporarily annexed Crimea.
He paid Russia's National Guard (aka Rosgvardia) for the paramilitary protection of his elite real estate on the peninsula's territory.
In just 3 months of 2016, the company under his control paid the occupiers more than half a million Russian rubles for these services.
According to the investigation, the Rosgvardiya was supposed to guard an unfinished prophylactic with a total area of more than 4.5 thousand square meters, located near the sea in the village of Simeiz.
The plot of land with an area of more than 1.5 hectares, on which the complex is located, is included in the recreation area and borders the "Medvedchuk dacha".
This real estate was purchased by enterprises whose beneficial owner was Oksana Marchenko. The company signed the relevant agreement, where Shufrych's personal lawyer is the executive director.
Subsequently, those involved signed a contract with the structures of the Russian Guard for the "protection" of the object in Crimea, according to which hundreds of thousands of Russian rubles were deposited into the accounts of the occupiers every month.
Also, the company controlled by Shufrych regularly financed the budget of the Russian Federation by paying taxes and fees.
During the searches in the offices of commercial entities affiliated with the People's Deput and residences of the persons involved in Kyiv, documents, seals and other physical evidence of criminal activity were discovered.
Nestor Shufrych and his lawyer were informed of suspicion for Part 3 of Art. 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine .
What else is Shufrych suspected of?
In September, Shufrych was suspected of treason. The SSU reports that he closely cooperated with and carried out the tasks of former NSDC secretary Volodymyr Sivkovich, an FSB agent.
One of Shufrych's main tasks was inflammatory activity in the information sphere. He systematically spread the Kremlin's narratives that the Ukrainian state is an allegedly artificial entity, that Ukraine and Russia have a single history, and that Ukrainians and Russians are supposedly "one nation."
He faces up to 15 years in prison.
