Four people are accused of doing business in the occupied territory and money laundering. The group bought second-hand clothes in Ukraine, sold them in the so-called “LPR,” and converted the profits into cryptocurrency and exchanged them for hryvnia in Kyiv. UNN reports this with reference to the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office.
Prosecutors of the Podilskyi District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv sent to court an indictment against four suspects who, as part of an organized group, conducted economic activities in cooperation with the aggressor state, illegal authorities established in the temporarily occupied territory, including the occupation administration of the aggressor state (Part 4 of Art. 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and subsequently legalized the proceeds of the said criminal activity in especially large amounts (Part 3 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)
The investigation established that the suspects bought second-hand goods from Ukrainian entrepreneurs, after which they smuggled them to the temporarily so-called “lPR” through European countries.
There, one of the group members was registered as an individual entrepreneur with the illegally created occupation authorities and sold second-hand items through a network of his own stores.
The suspects converted the money into cryptocurrency and exchanged it for hryvnias in Kyiv.
The suspects are located in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, so the investigation was conducted in the form of a special pre-trial investigation. Pre-trial restraint in the form of detention was imposed on all suspects.