Police open case against Eldorado owner after journalistic investigation
Kyiv • UNN
Police opened criminal proceedings against Viktor Polishchuk, owner of the Gulliver shopping center and Eldorado chain, for allegedly illegally crossing the state border of Ukraine as a volunteer during martial law using forged documents.
The police launched a criminal investigation after the Schemes project's investigation revealed that Viktor Polishchuk, the owner of the Gulliver shopping and office center and the Eldorado chain, traveled outside Ukraine as a volunteer during martial law on the basis of documents with signs of forgery. This was reported by Radio Liberty with reference to the press service of the National Police, UNN reports.
Details
As noted, law enforcement officers entered the information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations under Part 1 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code.
Within the framework of this criminal proceeding, the facts of illegal crossing of the state border of Ukraine will be checked
Recall
On March 14, Skhemy published an investigation into how the owner of the Gulliver shopping and office center and the Eldorado chain, 47-year-old Viktor Polishchuk, registered with the Shlyakh system as a volunteer driver during martial law, but did not deliver the requested aid, and the foreign company that was supposed to deliver it said it did not do so and that its name was used without the organization's knowledge.
The journalists pointed out that Polishchuk also twice left for Ukraine driving a truck, having been employed by a transportation company as a driver, but both times he did not deliver any cargo, and returned to Ukraine in his own passenger Mercedes.
According to information obtained by Skhemy from sources with access to border crossing data, Polishchuk traveled outside Ukraine at least five times: twice in 2022 and 2023, and in 2024.