VIENNA - Ukrainian
millionaire, Maxim Slutski, recently appointed by the IKG to coordinate the
Ukrainian refugee programme in Vienna, is a suspected link in a billion dollar
money laundering scheme tracing to Putin's overthrown puppet president Victor
Yanukovych.
Questions continue
to surround the whereabouts of billions of dollars plundered from the Ukrainian
budget and funnelled out of the country by former Ukrainian president Victor
Yanukovych and his cronies. Whilst convicted for high treason by a Ukraine court
on 25 January 2019, and sentenced to 13 years in prison in absentia, the
mystery as to how the Kremlin-backed politician made an estimated $40-$70
billion of taxpayers money simply “disappear” is yet to be solved. Here's How
Ukraine's Ousted Government Got Away With $40 Billion (buzzfeednews.com)
Following
Yanukovych's cowardly escape to Russia in 2013, a group of journalists broke
into the empty presidential palace, a sprawling country estate featuring what
has been described as “absurd luxury”, including a golf course, a vintage-car
collection and a private zoo which housed his famous ostriches.
There, they
unearthed reams of financial records revealing how Yanukovych and his top
officials buried millions of dollars embezzled from the state treasury in
off-shore havens. The damning evidence was confiscated by the Ukrainian
prosecutor, who proceeded to launch an investigation. However, private
investigators managed to gain access to parts of the material and discovered
that Yanukovych was also laundering vast sums via shell companies throughout Europe.
Yanukovych's associates are reported to have constructed an elaborate web of companies trading in buy-back loan schemes. The diagram produced by investigators below shows Slutski, his second wife Yuliya (nee Kaplan) and Yuliya's sister, Olena Gyellyer, purportedly involved in a convoluted operation, leading directly to the criminal in hiding, Victor Yanukovych at the base (circled red).
In 2008,
Slutski's company is alleged to have received a $2 million loan from two
Cypriot front firms, Dardo Trading Ltd and Jenifex Participation Limited
registered in Nicosia(circled yellow). The beneficiaries of these companies are
Yulia Shchukina and Vladislav Kravets (circled blue), both Ukrainian citizens
and according to sources in law enforcement agents, also well-known bankers.
Between 2012-2018, Shchukina and Kravets allegedly resold the debt to Maxi
Services Ltd (circled green).
Intermediary
companies, New Thornhill Trading Inc. and Margolex Limited (circled purple) are
then reported to have unburdened Maxi services (green)of the debt and
"resold" it along the chain.
Interestingly, the founder of Elizaten Management is an Olena Gyellyer, née Kaplan, sister of Yulia Kaplan, the afore-mentioned wife of Maxim Slutski.
In 2020, Slutski
fled with his family to London after an alleged kidnapping attempt (Three Ukrainians accusing the judge Emelyanov in an
attempt of kidnapping in Germany - world news (24-my.info) in
Vienna. There he stayed in this luxurious £3.1million home in Hampstead.
Due to Ukraine’s dysfunctional law enforcement system, Yanukovych's associates have yet to be brought to justice. As for Yanukovych himself, he is reported to be living under Putin's protection in Russia. Putin's brutal attacks on Ukrainian civilians are, experts say, an attempt to destabilise Zelensky's government and re-establish Yanukovych as a pro-Russian puppet.
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