Ukrainian law enforcement officers exposed a pharmaceutical scheme, through which hundreds of millions of hryvnias settled in the pockets of the former people's deputy - now a sub -businessman - and some of the products from Ukrainian developments got into the hospitals of the Russian army and power structures in the occupied territories.
It is reported by the National Police of Ukraine, the SBU and the Office of the Prosecutor General.
It is a 51-year-old excellence of the Verkhovna Rada of six convocations, whose name is not officially disclosed. According to the investigation, he still managed one of the largest pharmaceutical corporations in Ukraine, despite sanctions and war. Through the control of commercial structures, the oligarch organized a transfer of a complete package of documentation, pharmacopoeial samples and technologies for the manufacture of Ukrainian medicines.
These drugs were further made at pharmacy factories, sold in pharmacies, and also supplied to the hospitals of the Russian Federation, prisons and structures of the so -called "Ministry of Internal Affairs of DNR" and "LNR".
In order to hide trade with the aggressor country, after banning the export of medicines to the Russian Federation in 2022, the businessman created a fictitious foreign gasket, which continued to supply quality standards.
According to intelligence, in two years, these deliveries have brought the State Budget of the Russian Federation more than 100 million rubles in the form of taxes. And the total profit of the company, which worked on Ukrainian technologies in Russia, was estimated at 892 million rubles (over UAH 420 million).
All actions were coordinated by the Exnaress himself, dividing the roles between the participants of the organization - from executives and accountants to distributors and medical managers. Expertise also established taxes in Ukraine in the amount of UAH 93.3 million and the legalization of more than UAH 420 million in proceeds from crime.
On July 16, more than 40 searches in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv and the region, seized equipment, documents and financial materials. The evidence collected testify to systematic cooperation with the Russian Federation even after a full -scale invasion.
The suspicion has already been declared nine persons, including the leader of the organization. They are accused of articles on the creation and management of a criminal organization (Article 255 of the Criminal Code), aiding and abandoning the aggressor state (Article 111-2), tax evasion (Article 212) and money laundering (Article 209).
Maximum sanction - up to 12 years in prison with confiscation.
The investigation is ongoing. Law enforcement officers are working on the arrest of the assets of companies under the control of the former People's Deputy to transfer them to the state.
