Alexander Lavrinovich
According to ORD, the Prosecutor General's Office is investigating large-scale embezzlement Lavrinovich family The top officials of the Prosecutor General's Office intend to sell them and their partners at a very high price. The Lavrynovych family is willing to pay, since the stolen property was enough to cover all the prosecutors general and their deputies. Here's what they wrote about this case back in May. It's already November.
Former Ukrainian Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych has fallen into disgrace. Last week, the Prosecutor General's Office announced the initiation of criminal proceedings against him for embezzlement of public funds. Specifically, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, Lavrynovych's office spent approximately 8,6 million hryvnias of budgetary funds in 2013 on the services of the law firm he hired to represent him in the Tymoshenko v. Ukraine case. A year earlier, the same law firm's services cost only 95 hryvnias.
According to DS, the company involved in the criminal case may be Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, with which the Ministry of Justice signed a contract last March. If Oleksandr Lavrynovych is found guilty, he faces a five-year prison sentence. This is the maximum penalty provided for under Part 2 of Article 364 and Part 2 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code (abuse of power and official position, as well as official forgery causing grave consequences)—the articles under which the case involving Lavrynovych was opened.
Judging by the legacy Oleksandr Lavrynovych left behind during his tenure in Mykola Azarov's government, he can hardly expect leniency from the new authorities. Perhaps this is why the former Minister of Justice, who resigned as head of the High Council of Justice in April of this year, is rumored to have already left Ukraine and has no plans to return to the country anytime soon.
The criminal case against Lavrynovych may be just the tip of the iceberg. As DS has learned, law enforcement officials are also expected to soon be looking at his former employees. For example, Lavrynovych's associate, Gennady Stadnyk, the former head of the State Enforcement Service of Ukraine. The criminal prosecution may stem from the activities of the Specialized Enterprise "Justice," a private enterprise rumored to be affiliated with him. This firm, which began its hasty liquidation in April, had, by a strange coincidence, always received accreditation to sell confiscated property under Lavrynovych.
Gennady Stadnik, in turn, will likely drag his former subordinates down with him. For example, Natalia Panova, a frequent subject of journalistic anti-corruption investigations and the former head of the State Executive Service in Zakarpattia Oblast. According to local media, it was Panova who closely collaborated with Lavrynovych's son and decided which firms to prioritize when selecting entities to sell confiscated goods. Considering that Zakarpattia, which borders three countries, has traditionally been a hub for smuggling in the country, one can imagine the "dividends" these officials received. Another close associate of Lavrynovych Jr., Anatoliy Rodzinsky, has also come to the attention of Ukrainian law enforcement.
Oleksandr Lavrynovych's most trusted ally, Vitaly Dobzhansky, former CEO of the state-owned enterprise "Information Center," may also join forces with him. Questions arose immediately after Lavrynovych's resignation as Minister of Justice while still in the "regional" government. Dobzhansky was suspected of financial irregularities and abuse of office, after which he hastily fled to Israel. Dobzhansky was one of the key figures in the high-profile scandal involving the sudden closure of more than a dozen state registries last October. This, as it turns out, was the result of a power struggle between Lavrynovych's team and his successor, Elena Lukash.
During the time of Minister Lavrinovich, heto my son Maxim He was credited with enormous influence over various processes in the country's legal sphere. Now he's forced to wait for news from the security forces. Behind the scenes, it was said that many clues once led from father to son, but whether the prosecutor's office will be able to find them remains unclear. DS
According to ORD, the prosecutor's office was able to find all these leads. But the GPU leadership decided to simply sell them.
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