In Paris, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, a mansion belonging to Ukrainian businessman Kostyantyn Zhevago, valued at $40 million, has been seized.
This was reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The seizure was carried out in response to a request for international legal assistance sent by the Prosecutor General’s Office on 17 September 2026. Confirmation of the seizure of the property was received from the competent French authorities on 10 November.
The measure was taken as part of criminal proceedings in which the pre-trial investigation is being conducted by the State Bureau of Investigation under the procedural supervision of prosecutors from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
According to investigators, Kostyantyn Zhevago, who controlled more than 90% of the authorised share capital of JSC “Bank “Finance and Credit”, acting in prior collusion with other members of the bank’s management, organised a scheme to embezzle $113 million.
The investigation believes that the funds were subsequently laundered through offshore structures and other companies controlled by Zhevago.
- The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office sent to court in June an indictment against Zhevago. The businessman is accused of bribing the head and judges of the Supreme Court in order to secure a decision he wanted in a commercial dispute.
- In March, Zhevago in France was served with a notice of suspicion, after which he was questioned as a suspect.
- The former MP had been wanted since October 2019 on suspicion of embezzling 2.5 billion hryvnias from the bank “Finance and Credit”. He served six terms in the Ukrainian parliament, starting in 1998. In 2019, he lost the election in his constituency to ProZorro.Sales project manager Oleksii Movchan.
- In December 2022, Zhevago was detained in Courchevel, France.
- In November last year, a French court definitively refused to authorise Zhevago’s extradition to Ukraine, citing the fact that “Ukraine, being in a state of war, was forced to derogate from the fulfilment of obligations under international treaties”.