
Against the Donetsk oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, a criminal case of financing terrorism and separatism has been opened. According to 112 Ukraine, this was stated by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the bloc of Petro Poroshenko (BPP) Egor Firsov. According to the deputy, "few people know." He did not specify how he himself knew about it.
Firsov also said that the Prosecutor General’s Office had already summoned Akhmetov for interrogation in this case.
On Saturday, however, the Akhmetov’s press service denied the deputy’s message. “The information voiced by Firsov is not true,” the Ukrainian Pravda press service quotes . “This is a misinformation of society and slander, we consider such actions to be provocative and unacceptable.”
Firsov later accused the press service of the oligarch of lies, posting a photo of his agenda for interrogation to the Prosecutor General’s Office on Facebook. The agenda is dated March 31; The date of interrogation of the deputy indicated in it is April 8. The number of the case meaning in the document is 42015000000000008; It is open on January 12 under part 1 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code (terrorist attack), which provides from 5 to 10 years in the colony.
No indications that the case was initiated against Akhmetov is not contained in the agenda. Nevertheless, Firsov said: "Gentlemen from the press service of Mr. Akhmetov, do you think it will be difficult for me to prove my case? On Monday I will send an official request to the GPU."
The deputy, however, did not explain why he did not report the availability of the case against the Donetsk oligarch within 2 weeks after the interrogation on April 8.
So far, only one interrogation of Akhmetov in the Prosecutor General’s Office was known. As reported by RBC-Ukraine, this interrogation took place on January 22. The oligarch was interrogated for 6 hours as a witness in the case of financing the Donbass terrorists. Among the defendants in the case were called the deputy of the Rada from the opposition bloc Natalya Royal and the former deputy from the Party of Regions Alexander Efremov.
At the same time, on April 15, the Chairman of the SBU Valentin Nalivaichenko stated that neither his department nor the Prosecutor General’s Office had “serious comments” for Akhmetov.
Meanwhile, on April 23, as reported by Ukrainian Pravda, the Verkhovna Rada began a rally of miners. BPP deputy Irina Gerashchenko said that Akhmetov is behind the protests.
The next day, the deputy from the Popular Front, Sergei Vysotsky , placed on his Facebook page a scan of circulation directed by him and another 8 parliamentarians, Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. The deputies summed up Vysotsky, demanded "to understand the ugliness that Akhmetov arranged yesterday in Kyiv."
“The state’s blackmail by the laid peroshachites and titles, especially during the war, the actual assistance of Russia in destabilizing the situation in our country - all this should entail responsibility,” the deputy noted.
At the same time, the journalist and deputy of the Rada from the BPP Mustafa Nayyem published on his blog in the Ukrainian Pravda Facesimile Plan of the Fortress, which, according to him, was developed by the top managers of Akhmetov. In this regard, the events that are supposed to be carried out in order for the oligarch to retain the status of a monopolist in detail.
“The events of the last days in Kyiv, namely the strike of miners, the congress of mining trade unions, the requirements for the resignation of the Minister of Energy and the attack on the government and the president allegedly from the industry, is part of a single plan to protect the interests of Rinat Akhmetov’s companies in Energorynka,” wrote Nayyem.