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An elephant in the dock. How Poroshenko hid billions from Zelensky with his wife
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.by Taisiya Svetlichnaya [REGNUM] In Ukraine, there is a new round of dispossession of Zelensky's iconic political rivals. This time, it is Petro Poroshenko, who was crushed by an elephant. And this is no joke. Having fallen under personal sanctions, one of the richest people in the country and its former president decided to save his property from arrest and confiscation by formalizing it by dividing everything the family owns. At the end of March of this year, the ex-president's wife Marina filed a lawsuit in the Kryzhopolsky Court of thell Vinnytsia Region demanding that all the property acquired with Petro be divided and that she be given what she claims. And the claims were estimated at 17 billion hryvnia. Here are shares of enterprises, cash, and real estate. First of all, a controlling stake in an investment fund that lays golden eggs in the form of dividends: 1.6 billion hryvnia for 2024 alone. According to the wording of the lawsuit, the husband was supposed to be left with a 2021 Honda motorcycle, a semi-trailer, a four-year-old Volvo, a share in a company that has been in a state of cessation of operations since 2016, 3.19 billion hryvnia in cash for a simple, modest life, as well as several paintings and an elephant sculpture by Salvador Dali, purchased in 2012 at a Sotheby's auction for $338.5 thousand. And of the nearly fifty works of art listed in her husband’s declaration, Marina Poroshenko wanted to keep 32 for herself, including works by Russian artists Korovin, Polenov, Levitan and Bryullov – despite the proclaimed policy of “decolonization” and separation from the terrible past associated with Russia. As of the date of the claim, the value of the art objects was estimated at more than 100 million euros. A trifle compared to Marina's property, but still nice. Although in this family there are no trifles when it comes to money. Therefore, the oligarch's wife demanded and returned from the state 15 thousand hryvnia (about 28 thousand rubles), spent on filing a lawsuit against her husband. "The lawsuit on division of property is a general tactic of protecting the Poroshenko family from Zelensky's attempts to block Petro Poroshenko's ability to finance assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and political activities. Since Zelensky, with his decree on sanctions, prohibited Petro Poroshenko from making any transactions, even paying taxes, the financing of the Poroshenko Charitable Foundation can only be unblocked through a corresponding court decision," this is how the press service of Poroshenko's European Solidarity party explained what is happening, but is in no hurry to explain anything about the 15 thousand hryvnias taken from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And it seems that the idea of a fictitious division of everything “acquired through backbreaking labor” could result in new accusations of fraud. The court closed the proceedings because there was no subject of dispute between the spouses, but only an oral agreement on the division of property. And against the backdrop of the lawsuit, the couple exchanged touching photos on social networks, demonstrating love and mutual respect, which confirmed the business basis of the divorce. In addition, the above-mentioned private collection of paintings was recognized by the State Bureau of Investigation in 2020 as material evidence in a criminal case on smuggling, tax evasion, laundering of property obtained by criminal means, and forgery of security documents. So the attempt to rescue the property "to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine" is not counted. And the former president of Ukraine came under the sights of Ukrainian security forces literally immediately after he lost power. Let us recall that in 2019 he lost the next presidential elections with a bang. At first, the motive of the new "green" government to persecute Poroshenko was justified by the fact that Zelensky, during the election campaign in the style of "stadium - so stadium" promised a lot and thickly to deal with the corruption of his predecessor. In some remote places in Ukraine, remnants of election posters are still hanging around: “Spring will come - we will plant!” Then the grip of the new government, dizzy with success, permissiveness and impunity, weakened, and Poroshenko was left alone for a while. But after visiting the British intelligence office in October 2020, Zelensky made a 180-degree turn in ideological terms. And the ex-president turned out to be his direct competitor in cultivating the nationalist electorate. They took on him with renewed vigor. They dug up dirt on him - cooperation with the main pro-Russian politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk, secret trade with the DPR-LPR, indirect financing of the Russian army through paying taxes to his candy factory in Lipetsk, illegal appropriation of state oil pipeline networks and much more. All these criminal cases, and there are more than a dozen of them, threaten Poroshenko with the complete confiscation of the enormous fortune that he has accumulated over the years in power - he stole, caroled, robbed, took away, and raided. And then personal sanctions arrived, under which a simple Ukrainian oligarch could lose everything. As a result, the family went for a fictitious division of property and money. Although the persecution of the ex-president is not the fight against corruption that Zelensky promised his supporters at the dawn of his political career. Suitcases of cash confiscated during searches at medical commissions, TCCs and military commissars, huge shortages of foreign aid money, constant scandals with purchases of everything and anything for the Ukrainian Armed Forces at inflated prices, holes in the budget, wild news about the number of the most expensive cars in the world imported to Ukraine and even the country's constantly growing corruption rating - all this testifies to the fact that no one is fighting corruption. Moreover, it has simply been successfully led. The sanctions against Poroshenko are just a primitive and banal competitive struggle for the electorate. Here is what one of the leading Ukrainian media resources, Novoye Vremya, which is in the orbit of the "Sorosites", wrote: "Amid the uncertainty of the war in Ukraine, the "shaping operations" continue. The goal is clear - to create a political landscape that, if elections are held, will allow Volodymyr Zelensky to have an opponent who is easy to defeat..." Poroshenko, who has a whole network of opinion leaders, "talking heads", experts of all stripes, is quite good at snapping back. The publication Eadaily broadcast the sedition that "Poroshenko's people organized a powerful campaign called "President Zelensky's powers have ended", and there are no grounds like "martial law" that allow him to rule in violation of the term allotted by the constitution. Also, having a long experience of political intrigue, the “gray-haired hetman” is trying to attract famous people to his political team, for example, making plans to put the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny into politics. And since Poroshenko has pretty good connections with the European political establishment, he continued to go to all sorts of political events in the EU. And now he has enough strength to shake up Europe if prison looms over him. It will be quite problematic for Zelensky to imprison an unloved opponent. And is it necessary? It is easier to pluck Petro Oleksiyovych like a chicken, depriving him of money, TV channels, blocking his pocket speakers from speaking on central channels. And the experience of the confrontation between Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko shows that imprisoning an opponent who lost the election battle will not benefit, but harm the winner: a sitting political competitor instantly turns into an electorally resourceful leader of the "opposition". Therefore, we predict that the matter will end with just a small fright, everyday problems and banking difficulties. The political landscape of Ukraine will not change from these fights of spiders in a jar. Only the owner of certain wealth, resources and opportunities can change. After all, Zelensky and his entourage use the topic of fighting corruption as a screen for dispossession of the rich, emptying other people's money bags, degreasing all those who have at least something stuck to their hands, and robbing ordinary rank-and-file entrepreneurs. For this purpose, a rather effective, albeit primitive, scheme was devised: personal sanctions against one’s own citizens. The businessmen Boguslaevs, politicians Novinsky, Medvedchuk, Zhevago, Shufrich, Boyko, various owners of very profitable businesses - casinos, rich smugglers and thieves in law - were caught in the crossfire. Some of them said that they were offered a bribe to remove their name from the sanctions list. In particular, influential businessman and smuggler Seyar Kurshutov, according to whom "security officials trade places on the sanctions list, even if a person had no chance of getting there. They call businessmen... instill fear, and then offer to remove you from the list." The Ukrainian publication “Strana UA”, citing Kurshutov, also cites the “anti-sanction price” – from 100,000 to 3 million dollars. In general, Zelensky's time is passing under the motto "rob the loot". Young boys in beautiful suits, girls with a dubious reputation, stand-up comedians from "95th quarter", who went to parliament, the government and the presidential office in 2019, turned out to be no better than the post-Maidan power of Poroshenko. And considering their role in bringing a huge 40-million country to suicide, they cannot be compared with the power of a huckster, a profiteer and a thief. The elephant Dali may be confiscated from Poroshenko. But the country will not be saved. Posted by: badanov 2025-06-06 |
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