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Medvedchuk Viktor Volodymyrovych
Медведчук Віктор Володимирович
Other spellings: Medvedchuk Viktor Volodymyrovych / Viktor Medvedchuk / Виктор Медведчук
72 (b. 1954) · Former official · Wanted
Indictment in court
Alleged across all episodes
€19,000,000
₴2,900,000,000
US$200,000,000
Established by court verdicts
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Amounts are shown in the source currency; different currencies are not added together.
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.
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Journalists compiled Medvedchuk's assets that did not make it into his declaration
Misappropriation of part of the “Samara – Western Direction” petroleum product pipeline
Indictment in courtperiod: ~2015—2018made public: 2024-07-24
Alleged
₴1,400,000,000
Established by court
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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.
Pre-trial investigation body:
Security Service of Ukraine
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Medvedchuk wiretap 2: who helped Putin's kum get the pipe ///NG No. 351 (2021.05.24)
Purchase of coal from the occupied territories of Donbas for state thermal power plants (2014–2015)
Indictment in courtperiod: ~2014—2015made public: 2021-10-08
Alleged
₴1,500,000,000
Established by court
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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.
Pre-trial investigation body:
State Bureau of Investigation
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Charges:
ч. 1 ст. 111 КК України, ст. 258-3 КК України, ст. 258-5 КК України
Sources (6)
SBI conducted searches in the case of a criminal scheme for supplying coal from the territories of the terrorist organizations “L/DNR” (VIDEO)
Official statement · State Bureau of Investigation · 29 Dec 2021
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.
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Journalists compiled Medvedchuk's assets that did not make it into his declaration
