Inter TV channel, owned by Sergei Levochkin, is rushing to the aid of the former head of the Prosecutor General's Office. To Oleg Makhnitsky and is trying to “cleanse” him of suspicions of purchasing the five-star Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel.
This can be judged from the report on "Podrobnosti," where the hotel situation is presented exclusively from Makhnitsky's perspective. Levochkin's TV channel showed the Svoboda member denying the Hyatt purchase, but for the sake of objectivity, they somehow "forgot" to take comments from the opposing side.
In their video report, Inter journalists attempted to get to the bottom of the matter and identify the real owner of a five-star hotel in central Kyiv. US President George W. Bush stayed at the Hyatt Regency Kyiv in 2008, and in 2014, the hotel hosted another distinguished guest: US Vice President Joe Biden. Owning a Hyatt hotel is prestigious and profitable, with room rates starting at 6,500 hryvnias and up.
As the story goes, tens of millions in annual profits from this "glass box" are now attributed to the former Prosecutor General.
It should be noted that not only Makhnitsky, but also his business partner Igor Krivetsky are suspected of purchasing the hotel (Read more about it in the article Igor Krivetsky: Svoboda's criminal sponsors), who, according to Tyahnybok himself, heads the economic council of Svoboda and is “responsible for proposals for personnel appointments in the government at the level of deputy ministers.
Krivetsky and the former head of the Prosecutor General's Office have a long-standing friendship. According to malicious gossip, it was Krivetsky who served as Makhnitsky's primary advisor on all personnel matters.
Levochkin's "Podrobnosti" reported that Oleg Makhnitsky even had to apply to the state registry for a document stating that the Hyatt does not belong to him.
"Let people explain how I made money. What criminal case did I close, or who did I exonerate? I did the opposite. During my tenure as head of the Prosecutor General's Office, as I've already said, over a thousand criminal cases were opened," said Oleg Makhnitsky, who was caught making an expensive purchase.
To divert public attention from the disgraced Svoboda member, Levochkin's television channel "found a trail" and reported that the controlling stake in the Hyatt Regency Kyiv allegedly belongs to Russian investors.
The report also featured an interview with Donetsk Oblast Governor Sergei Taruta, who claimed to have owned the hotel and even planned to build a new Hyatt Regency in Crimea.
The story also states that the Hyatt Regency is officially owned by New Engineering Technologies, and that “three offshore companies are behind it.”
In their "investigation," the Pinkertons from Levochkin's "Details" take the viewer further and further away from Makhnitsky in order to produce a passage about how "against the backdrop of the seizure of Taruta's assets due to a lawsuit filed by the Russian bank VTB in the courts of Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, it is quite possible that the Hyatt Hotel has caught the eye of Russian oligarchs."
Given Inter's focus on protecting Svoboda's Makhnitsky's reputation, one can conclude that Svoboda is working closely with Levochkin.
As reported by Obozrevatel, writer Irena Karpa previously claimed that former Prosecutor General's Office head Oleh Makhnitsky purchased a five-star Hyatt hotel in central Kyiv. Makhnitsky, for his part, denied this information and filed a lawsuit against Karpa.
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