Former MP and KSCA head Vladimir Makeenko lost control of foreign assets worth more than 1.5 billion hryvnias. At the request of the Office of the Prosecutor General and on the basis of the DBR materials, the court arrested the funds and securities that were blocked in accounts in Luxembourg and transferred them to the ARMA.
These assets, according to the investigation, have signs of illegal origin. It is a business that has been in the shadows for years - through a number of offshore related to Makeenko, including Panama, in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands. The income received did not declare, taxes in Ukraine were not paid.
The materials of criminal proceedings opened after tax evasion in particularly large amounts, there is a large -scale scheme of withdrawal of money from Ukraine. In fact, this is another episode from a series of investigations about how figures from Yanukovych's environment, avoiding responsibility after the Revolution of Dignity, continued to be secretly enriched.
Makeenko is not a new person for security forces. In 2023, the SBU and DBR already conducted searches in the case of laundering of more than UAH 500 million. His political biography is a typical route of the former regionals: participation in the Party of Regions, the appointment of Yanukovych as the head of the KSCA during the Maidan, and then an attempt to "reconnect", in particular through participation in the project of the TV channel "Direct", which later was owned by Petro Poroshenko.
The arrest of Luxembourg assets is one of the first cases where foreign financial structures have blocked funds related to former Ukrainian officials. This can be a precedent for the return of billions stolen into Ukraine.
