SBU has detained a businessman in Kyiv Oblast

SBU and DBR detained a businessman in Kyiv Oblast who transferred more than UAH 15 million to DPR militants

The Security Service and the Security Intelligence Service detained in Kyiv region the general director of a foundry from the temporarily occupied Makiyivka in Donetsk region, who is involved in the financing of the terrorist organization "DNR".

On the eve of a full-scale war, the attacker transferred tens of millions of hryvnia equivalents to the "budget" of the militants.

According to the investigation, after the capture of the city in 2014, the businessman continued to do business in the occupied part of the region.

For this purpose, the plant sold equipment to Ukraine through front companies registered in our country. According to the documents, the goods came from Taganrog, but were actually imported from Makiyivka through the Rostov region.

Thus, before the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the parcels bypassed the restrictions imposed on trade with captured enterprises in the east of Ukraine.

To implement the scheme, its participants created a network of controlled commercial structures in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions, as well as in Russia.

A large part of the received "profits" of the plot was transferred to the "budget of the national government" as payment of "taxes and fees". "Transactions" were carried out through sanctioned banks in the Russian Federation and in the temporarily occupied Donbas.

In the future, the leaders of the militants directed this money to finance the occupation groups of the aggressor country fighting on the eastern front.

It was established that the organizer of the "scheme" himself left for Kyiv region before February 24, 2022, where he tried to "lie down" and thereby avoid justice.

However, the law enforcement officers exposed his criminal activities and arrested him. In addition to him, his accomplices were exposed in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia.

Currently, the organizer of the illegal business has been notified of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 258-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of terrorism).

Perpetrators face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.