MP Shufrych suspected of financing Russian Guard
Source: Security Service of Ukraine
The Security Service declared another crime suspicion to MP Nestor Shufrych. He is suspected of financing Russian Guard in the occupied Crimea.
The SBU, Prosecutor General office, and the State Bureau of Investigatio collected new evidence of the anti-Ukrainian activities of MP Nestor Shufrych, who is already suspected of treason.
According to the investigation, Shufrych established a financing scheme for Russian occupation groups in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
In particular, Shufrych paid money to the Russian Guard for paramilitary protection of his elite real estate in Crimea. In just 3 months of 2016, the company under his control paid the occupiers more than half a million Russian rubles for these services.
Based on the documented facts, the Ukrainian law enforcement notified Nestor Shufrych and his lawyer of another suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of actions committed for the purpose of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power, change of territory or state border of Ukraine).
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