The State Bureau of Investigation has handed over to the National Asset Recovery Agency (ARMA) a company owned by the closest relatives of suspected high treasoners Serhiy Medvedchuk and Bohdan Kozak, brothers of former MPs Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak. The value of the property was estimated at $5 million.
This is stated in the press service of the State Bureau of Investigation.
The state will take over a brick production plant in Lviv Region, the ultimate owners of which are Medvedchuk and Kozak's siblings.
The company has been evading taxes for years, while its profits were used to finance Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.
Recently, the State Bureau of Investigation, in cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine, served suspicions on the persons involved in the investigation.
Other property of the company will also be transferred to state ownership: four off-road vehicles, two excavators, a tractor, forklifts, land plots with a total area of more than 10 hectares, and non-residential premises with an area of more than 31,000 square metres.
- In June last year, the SBI handed over the company's seized vehicle fleet worth more than USD 1 million to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- In addition, the property of the Medvedchuk and Kozak brothers was seized, which the defendants managed to transfer to their closest relatives or straw men.
- In particular, in April 2022, Taras Kozak's brother, having learned that the SBI was conducting an investigation, entered into 30 sale and purchase agreements and four donation agreements for property worth USD 3.5 million.
- He re-registered four apartments in Kyiv, an apartment in Lviv, a house in Sambir district, and two land plots of almost 0.5 hectares to his mother.
- Kozak's brother's common-law wife became the owner of two apartments, two car parks and a non-residential building in Lviv. Three other houses in Lviv and three land plots were transferred to the ownership of close associates.
- The procedure for transferring this property to the ARMA is currently underway.