Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation together with the Security Service of Ukraine recorded new evidence of the anti-Ukrainian activities of People's Deputy Nestor Shufrych, who is already under suspicion of treason.
According to the conclusions of the investigation, the suspect organized a financing scheme for Russian occupation groups in the temporarily annexed Crimea.
He provided funds to the Russian Rosguard for paramilitary protection of his elite real estate on the peninsula. In just three months of 2016, the company under his control transferred more than half a million Russian rubles to the occupiers for such services.
The Russian Guardsmen were supposed to provide protection for the unfinished prophylactory with a total area of more than 4.5 thousand square meters, located near the sea in the village of Simeiz. This real estate, which was located on a plot of land with an area of more than 1.5 hectares and bordered on "Medvedchuk's dacha", was purchased through enterprises whose controlling shares belonged to Oksana Marchenko. The relevant agreement was signed by Shufrych's personal lawyer, who acted as the executive director of this company.
Later, those involved agreed on the protection of the object in Crimea through the conclusion of a contract with the structures of the Russian Guard, according to which money was transferred to the occupiers in hundreds of thousands of Russian rubles every month. In addition, the company controlled by Shufrych systematically paid taxes and fees to the budget of Russia.
During the searches in the offices of commercial structures affiliated with the People's Deput and the residences of the persons involved in Kyiv, documentation, seals and other material evidence of criminal activity were discovered.
On the basis of the collected facts, the SBI investigators notified Nestor Shufrych and his lawyer of the suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of actions aimed at violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of territory or state border of Ukraine). The investigation continues.
Shufrych, who is suspected of treason, received suspicion on September 15. The Security Service of Ukraine confirmed that he "closely cooperated" with the former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sivkovych, who was an FSB agent and coordinated the Russian agency in Ukraine. According to the investigation, one of the main tasks of Shufrych was to destabilize the situation in the information sphere. He spread the Kremlin's narratives that Ukraine is an "artificial entity" and that Ukrainians and Russians are "one nation" in order to strengthen pro-Russian sentiment in Ukrainian society.
