{"id":"01a0fda3-34fe-7a60-8954-cd3c3d4c55f4","age":72,"slug":"medvedchuk-viktor-b4f9","isPep":true,"photo":{"url":"/media/persons/01a0fda3-34fe-7a60-8954-cd3c3d4c55f4/8f336714-6794-4a19-80fe-75eee334f535-640.webp","credit":"Wikimedia Commons (джерело: портал відкритих даних Верховної Ради України) (фото: Верховна Рада України) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:НДУ_9_Медведчук_Віктор_Володимирович.jpg","license":"Attribution"},"amounts":{"usd":{"alleged":"313292323.07","complete":true,"established":"0.00"},"byCurrency":[{"alleged":"19000000.00","currency":"EUR","established":"0.00"},{"alleged":"2900000000.00","currency":"UAH","established":"0.00"},{"alleged":"200000000.00","currency":"USD","established":"0.00"}],"confirmedRatio":0},"summary":"Former Head of the Presidential Administration (2002–2005) and MP of the 9th convocation (mandate terminated in 2023). Bihus.Info published recordings of his 2014–2016 conversations on the Samara–Western Direction oil pipeline and coal from ORDLO. The OPG sent indictments to court: over seizure of part of the pipeline worth UAH 1.4 billion (2026) and in the \"coal case\" (2025). No verdicts; trial in absentia, Medvedchuk is in Russia.","episodes":[{"id":"01a0fdb2-154d-76b7-9ca5-4eddcd5f954e","title":"Yacht Royal Romance worth $200 million, not listed in the MP’s declaration for 2019","status":"journalistic","amounts":{"usd":{"rate":"1.0000000000","alleged":"200000000.00","rateDate":"2020-06-22","established":"0.00"},"alleged":"200000000.00","currency":"USD","established":"0.00"},"dateEnd":null,"sources":[{"id":"01a0fdb2-155b-7161-a7ff-d03fdf6975c4","url":"https://bihus.info/zhurnalisty-zibraly-aktyvy-medvedchuka-shho-ne-potrapyly-v-jogo-deklaracziyu/","type":"ngo","title":"Journalists compiled Medvedchuk's assets that did not make it into his declaration","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-09-16","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdb2-1554-7e79-90fb-be4f02bb5a44","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQx8uidYIOY","type":"ngo","title":"Medvedchuk's wealth: a $200 million yacht, 25 apartments and the Bulgarian coast","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-09-15","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdb2-156c-75b0-a715-321ff28e6507","url":"https://glavcom.ua/country/politics/yahta-zemlya-ta-neruhomist-zhurnalisti-znayshli-aktivi-medvedchuka-yaki-vidsutni-v-deklaraciji-705697.html","type":"media","title":"A yacht, land and real estate. Journalists found Medvedchuk's assets missing from his declaration","publisher":"Glavcom","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-09-16","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdb2-1562-7040-918d-756e8df3ec35","url":"https://wz.lviv.ua/news/415049-medvedchuk-zadeklaruvav-ofshor-z-iakhtoiu-za-200-mln-dolariv-bihusinfo","type":"media","title":"Medvedchuk declared an offshore company with a 200 million dollar yacht – Bihus.Info","publisher":"Vysokyi Zamok","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-06-22","untranslated":[]}],"dateStart":null,"caseNumber":null,"description":"According to Bihus.Info journalists (June and September 2020), in MP Viktor Medvedchuk's 2019 declaration his wife is listed as the beneficial owner of the offshore company Fregata Marine Ltd (Marshall Islands), to which the yacht Royal Romance is registered; the yacht itself, which journalists value at $200 million, is not reflected in the declaration. The journalists point out that the law requires declaring the assets of companies whose beneficial owners are the MP or members of his family. This is a journalistic investigation; no official proceedings regarding the non-declaration of this yacht have been registered (according to information found while preparing the record). There is no verdict.","disclosedAt":"2020-06-22","coDefendants":[],"untranslated":[],"courtCaseNumber":null,"statusUpdatedAt":null,"criminalArticles":[],"dateIsApproximate":false,"investigatingBody":null,"daysWithoutMovement":null},{"id":"01a0fda3-3727-7e28-abb8-cbd32f4ffa9f","title":"Misappropriation of part of the “Samara – Western Direction” petroleum product pipeline","status":"indictment","amounts":{"usd":{"rate":"0.0242532427","alleged":"33954539.78","rateDate":"2024-07-24","established":"0.00"},"alleged":"1400000000.00","currency":"UAH","established":"0.00"},"dateEnd":"2018-12-31","sources":[{"id":"01a0fda3-3731-756f-82e8-8b0416747184","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoWeJPiF5us","type":"ngo","title":"Medvedchuk wiretap 2: who helped Putin's kum get the pipe ///NG No. 351 (2021.05.24)","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2021-05-24","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-373b-7539-b018-12712a8c3d1a","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7wV_AYFgtI","type":"ngo","title":"Medvedchuk on the spire: where the sanctioned planes were hidden /// Bottom-line summary","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2021-02-25","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-3743-793b-ba56-099ab6d9c4e8","url":"https://bihus.info/litaky-medvedchuka-nezadovgo-do-nakladennya-sankczij-peregnaly-do-shvejczariyi/","type":"ngo","title":"“Medvedchuk's planes” were flown to Switzerland shortly before sanctions were imposed","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2021-02-25","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-3750-7718-804e-664889836478","url":"https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/1148768.html","type":"media","title":"Medvedchuk's case on appropriation of an oil pipeline worth UAH 1.4 billion and laundering of EUR 29.9 million sent to court","publisher":"Interfax-Ukraine","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2026-03-03","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-3758-7ca0-b55a-4feec1f4f10c","url":"https://pravo.ua/spravu-viktora-medvedchuka-pro-pryvlasnennia-naftoprovodu-na-1-4-mlrd-hrn-peredano-do-sudu","type":"media","title":"Viktor Medvedchuk's case on appropriation of an oil pipeline worth UAH 1.4 billion sent to court","publisher":"Pravo.ua","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2026-03-03","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-374a-7dc0-814e-4060e807a93b","url":"https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-economy/3888389-medvedcuku-i-spilnikam-povidomili-pro-pidozru-u-spravi-naftoprovodu-samarazahidnij-napramok.html","type":"media","title":"Medvedchuk and accomplices served notices of suspicion in the “Samara-Western Direction” oil pipeline case","publisher":"Ukrinform","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2024-07-24","untranslated":[]}],"dateStart":"2015-01-01","caseNumber":null,"description":"According to the SBU and NABU investigation, in 2015–2018 Viktor Medvedchuk created and led an organised group which, through Prykarpatzakhidtrans LLC, took possession of part of the «Samara — Western Direction» trunk petroleum products pipeline worth UAH 1.4 billion; according to the prosecution, the criminal proceeds exceeded EUR 29.9 million. A notice of suspicion was served on 24 July 2024, and on 3 March 2026 the Office of the Prosecutor General sent the indictment to court (special court proceedings). Charges: organising misappropriation of property on an especially large scale, money laundering, abuse of authority, forgery of expert opinions. In 2021 Bihus.Info published recordings of 2015 conversations between Medvedchuk and the head of «Transneft» Nikolai Tokarev about returning the pipe after the court decision on nationalisation and its subsequent sale to the Swiss International Trading Partners. Medvedchuk denied involvement with the pipeline. There is no verdict.","disclosedAt":"2024-07-24","coDefendants":[],"untranslated":[],"courtCaseNumber":null,"statusUpdatedAt":null,"criminalArticles":[],"dateIsApproximate":true,"investigatingBody":"Security Service of Ukraine","daysWithoutMovement":null},{"id":"01a0fda3-378f-7b42-8146-47948b792807","title":"Purchase of coal from the occupied territories of Donbas for state thermal power plants (2014–2015)","status":"indictment","amounts":{"usd":{"rate":"0.0379774718","alleged":"56966207.70","rateDate":"2021-10-08","established":"0.00"},"alleged":"1500000000.00","currency":"UAH","established":"0.00"},"dateEnd":"2015-12-31","sources":[{"id":"01a0fda3-379f-7f46-a642-cfd754d25c15","url":"https://dbr.gov.ua/news/dbr-provelo-obshuki-u-spravi-shhodo-zlochinnoi-shemi-postachannya-vugillya-z-teritorij-teroristichnih-organizacij-ldnr","type":"official","title":"SBI conducted searches in the case of a criminal scheme for supplying coal from the territories of the terrorist organizations “L/DNR” (VIDEO)","publisher":"State Bureau of Investigation","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2021-12-29","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-3797-7bd5-afe3-efa183956813","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCHlr2-AzSw","type":"ngo","title":"Occupied coal for our money: Medvedchuk wiretap 3 /// Nashi Groshi No. 352 (2021.05.31)","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2021-05-31","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-37b9-7c5a-a1a0-7069f333466c","url":"https://glavcom.ua/country/criminal/stalo-vidomo-khto-suditime-poroshenka-i-medvedchuka-u-vuhilnij-spravi-1060842.html","type":"media","title":"It became known who will try Poroshenko and Medvedchuk in the “coal case”","publisher":"Glavcom","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2025-05-28","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-37b0-7139-9da7-a3e058c0c6aa","url":"https://glavcom.ua/country/politics/poroshenko-ofitsijno-stav-obvinuvachenim-u-vuhilnij-spravi-pro-derzhavnu-zradu-1054565.html","type":"media","title":"Poroshenko officially became a defendant in the “coal case” on high treason","publisher":"Glavcom","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2025-04-17","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-37c2-7ee1-afe2-71798c2404c1","url":"https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-polytics/3372514-pidozra-porosenku-u-dbr-rozpovili-detali-spravi-pro-derzzradu.html","type":"media","title":"Suspicion against Poroshenko: SBI disclosed details of the high treason case","publisher":"Ukrinform","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2021-12-20","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fda3-37a9-7204-be60-b954193bcc98","url":"https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/medvedchuk-zelensky-teroryzm-sud-putin/31506435.html","type":"media","title":"Medvedchuk, “treason”, coal from ORDLO and a billion hryvnias: what to expect from the cases against Putin's kum","publisher":"Radio Liberty","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2021-10-13","untranslated":[]}],"dateStart":"2014-10-01","caseNumber":null,"description":"According to the SBI (proceedings under Article 111(1), Article 258-3, Article 258-5 of the Criminal Code), in 2014–2015 a scheme was organised to supply coal from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and to assist the terrorist organisations «LPR» and «DPR»; the total value of purchases was about UAH 1.5 billion. Notices of suspicion were served on Viktor Medvedchuk (8 October 2021) and Petro Poroshenko (20 December 2021); on 16–17 April 2025 the indictment against Poroshenko, Medvedchuk and Serhii Kuziara was sent to court, and the case was transferred to the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv. There is no verdict; the defendants deny guilt. In 2021 Bihus.Info published recordings of Medvedchuk's conversations discussing payment for coal from ORDLO, including in cash, and approval from the «president». According to the journalists' calculations, the Hong Kong companies Arida and Cortex, linked to Medvedchuk, imported coal for state thermal power plants as intermediaries in 2014–2016 worth at least UAH 300 million; this figure concerns only these contracts and differs from the investigators' amount.","disclosedAt":"2021-10-08","coDefendants":[],"untranslated":[],"courtCaseNumber":null,"statusUpdatedAt":null,"criminalArticles":["ч. 1 ст. 111 КК України","ст. 258-3 КК України","ст. 258-5 КК України"],"dateIsApproximate":true,"investigatingBody":"State Bureau of Investigation","daysWithoutMovement":null},{"id":"01a0fdb2-159a-7212-839c-4a117083fba7","title":"Land on the Bulgarian coast through firms in which almost EUR 19 million was invested, not listed in the MP’s declaration","status":"journalistic","amounts":{"usd":{"rate":"1.1774513468","alleged":"22371575.59","rateDate":"2020-09-10","established":"0.00"},"alleged":"19000000.00","currency":"EUR","established":"0.00"},"dateEnd":"2007-12-31","sources":[{"id":"01a0fdb2-155b-7161-a7ff-d03fdf6975c4","url":"https://bihus.info/zhurnalisty-zibraly-aktyvy-medvedchuka-shho-ne-potrapyly-v-jogo-deklaracziyu/","type":"ngo","title":"Journalists compiled Medvedchuk's assets that did not make it into his declaration","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-09-16","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdb2-1554-7e79-90fb-be4f02bb5a44","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQx8uidYIOY","type":"ngo","title":"Medvedchuk's wealth: a $200 million yacht, 25 apartments and the Bulgarian coast","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-09-15","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdb2-15a6-7743-ad93-da078d6ed5a6","url":"https://bihus.info/medvedchuk-skupyvsya-na-20-mln-yevro-na-uzberezhzhi-bolgariyi-pislya-zvilnennya-z-ap-kuchm/","type":"ngo","title":"Medvedchuk bought up EUR 20 million worth on the Bulgarian coast after leaving Kuchma's Presidential Administration","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-09-10","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdb2-156c-75b0-a715-321ff28e6507","url":"https://glavcom.ua/country/politics/yahta-zemlya-ta-neruhomist-zhurnalisti-znayshli-aktivi-medvedchuka-yaki-vidsutni-v-deklaraciji-705697.html","type":"media","title":"A yacht, land and real estate. Journalists found Medvedchuk's assets missing from his declaration","publisher":"Glavcom","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2020-09-16","untranslated":[]}],"dateStart":"2007-01-01","caseNumber":null,"description":"According to Bihus.Info, citing the Bulgarian property register, in 2007, two years after Viktor Medvedchuk left the post of Head of the Presidential Administration, five Bulgarian companies whose ultimate beneficial owner is listed as his wife acquired almost 23 ha on the Black Sea coast (Nesebar, Pomorie, Tsarevo); 37 million leva were invested in the capital of these companies — almost EUR 19 million by the outlet's calculation. Journalists reported that these assets are not in Medvedchuk's 2019 declaration as an MP; he himself had earlier explained registering the business in his wife's name by the 2014 US sanctions. This is a journalistic investigation; no official proceedings regarding these assets have been registered (according to information found while preparing the record). There is no verdict.","disclosedAt":"2020-09-10","coDefendants":[],"untranslated":[],"courtCaseNumber":null,"statusUpdatedAt":null,"criminalArticles":[],"dateIsApproximate":true,"investigatingBody":null,"daysWithoutMovement":null}],"fullName":"Медведчук Віктор Володимирович","response":null,"birthYear":1954,"deathDate":null,"indexable":true,"updatedAt":"2026-10-02T22:55:49.517431+00:00","revisionId":"01a0fe0b-77ef-77d6-990c-2c1c0408c786","connections":[],"citizenships":[],"govPositions":[{"id":"01a0fda3-3c66-7939-91cb-7ddcca9b7ba3","title":"Member of Parliament of Ukraine, 9th convocation","agency":"Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine","dateTo":"2023-01-13","region":null,"sources":[{"id":"01a0fda3-3c3a-736d-b44b-9aac476b8e9f","url":"https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Медведчук_Віктор_Володимирович","type":"media","title":"Medvedchuk Viktor Volodymyrovych","publisher":"Wikipedia","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-01","untranslated":[]}],"dateFrom":"2019-08-29","agencySlug":"verkhovna-rada-ukrainy-150c","untranslated":[],"appointmentType":"elected"},{"id":"01a0fda3-3c3e-7a0c-91bc-d7d4593551f1","title":"Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine","agency":"Administration of the President of Ukraine","dateTo":"2005-01-21","region":null,"sources":[{"id":"01a0fda3-3c3a-736d-b44b-9aac476b8e9f","url":"https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Медведчук_Віктор_Володимирович","type":"media","title":"Medvedchuk Viktor Volodymyrovych","publisher":"Wikipedia","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-01","untranslated":[]}],"dateFrom":"2002-06-12","agencySlug":"administratsiia-prezydenta-ukrainy-bb2e","untranslated":[],"appointmentType":"appointed"}],"nameVariants":["Medvedchuk Viktor Volodymyrovych","Viktor Medvedchuk","Виктор Медведчук"],"untranslated":[],"fullNameLatin":"Medvedchuk Viktor Volodymyrovych","primaryStatus":"indictment","officialStatus":"former","currentSituation":"wanted","commercialPositions":[]}