In early April 2024, pro-Russian activist Andriy Portnov, who is under US sanctions and has left Ukraine, re-registered a large estate near Kyiv, in the elite village of Kozyn, to his four minor children. This is stated in an investigation by journalists of the Schemes project, UNN reports.
In early April 2024, pro-Russian activist Andriy Portnov, who is under US sanctions and has left Ukraine, re-registered a large estate near Kyiv, in the elite village of Kozyn, to his children. The property was re-registered in Ukraine by lawyers close to Portnov under a power of attorney, which he certified in January with a notary in Madrid
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The journalists of the publication received a gift agreement dated April 3, which states that a house with a total area of more than 1,000 square meters and a 0.65-hectare plot of land in a gated cottage community on the banks of the Dnipro River were received by Portnov's four minor children in equal parts as a gift from Portnov.
"The agreement states that the children's interests were personally represented by their mother, Portnov's common-law wife Anastasia Valyayeva, when re-registering the property with a Kyiv notary. She has been a citizen of the Russian Federation since 2014. On Portnov's behalf, under a power of attorney certified in Madrid, lawyer Maryna Parinova acted, who represented Portnov in courts during the politician's stay in Ukraine," the publication notes.
It is noted that the value of the property under the agreement is UAH 19 million: UAH 14.3 million for the mansion and UAH 4.7 million for the 65 acres of land under it.
In 2016, this estate was registered to an offshore company from the Virgin Islands, Constellation Innovations Ltd, at which time it, along with the land, was valued at €2.5 million. In 2020, the company sold the property to Andriy Portnov. The seller's representative was Andriy Verevsky, an agribusinessman, former MP from the Party of Regions and Portnov's neighbor in Kozyn. The payment of UAH 19 million was to be made in installments later, but according to the agreement, Verevsky was to immediately transfer the estate to Portnov's use.
The journalists emphasize that in 2022 it was recorded that Portnov was using the estate, but the deal was not fully closed until January 2024, when Portnov certified his statement to a notary in Madrid that he had "fulfilled all the requirements and obligations" under the agreement, and he asked to register the house and the land under it in his own name in the State Register of Real Property Rights.
Recall
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