The court found former fugitive MP Oleg Tsarev guilty of financing actions committed to change the borders of the territory and state border of Ukraine. The ex-MP was sentenced to 8 years in prison and confiscated his property for almost half a billion hryvnias. This is reported by UNN with reference to the Office of the prosecutor general.
On public prosecution of prosecutors of the Vinnytsia regional prosecutor's office, the court in special judicial proceedings sentenced a people's deputy of Ukraine of the V – VII convocations from the banned "Party of Regions". The ex-MP was found guilty of financing actions committed to change the borders of the territory and state border of Ukraine (Part 3 of Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)
The ex-MP was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Also, by a court decision, all property belonging to the convicted person is subject to confiscation. In particular, we are talking about:
- land plot of 0.15 hectares in Kiev region;
- apartment in Dnipro;
- real estate objects in the temporarily occupied Crimea: hotel and sanatorium complexes, dormitories, industrial premises, outbuildings.
The total value of the property is UAH 460.6 million, the UCP added.
Prosecutors in court proved the fact that the convicts financed the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
The ex-MP had real estate and a number of enterprises in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. After the annexation of the peninsula, he registered them under Russian law and hired the Rosgvardiya military to provide security measures.
The facts of money transfers for the protection of the museum-estate and sanatorium belonging to him in the city of Yalta have been established. They were transferred to the accounts of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Okhrana of the federal service of National Guard troops of the Russian Federation
Now Tsarev is on the territory of the Russian Federation. He will serve his sentence from the moment of detention.
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In November last year, Tsarev was informed about another suspicion - in the financing of Rosgvardiya.
In February 2024, the court seized the property worth almost half a billion hryvnias of former MP Oleg Tsarev.