Elon Musk accuses "Zelenskyy Defence Ministry official" of crimes committed by Ukraine's former president's associate
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Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:01:58 +0200
American billionaire and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk has spread disinformation that a Zelenskyys Ministry of Defence official allegedly stole US46 million by buying a villa, a vineyard and 27 plots of land in France.
Source Musk on X Twitter, Specialised AntiCorruption Prosecutors Office SAPO Tip of the iceberg https//t.co/mjbObs0Tz5 Elon Musk elonmusk February 21, 2025 Details Musk shared a false post with the comment, Tip of the iceberg.
The original post read French police say Zelenskyys defence ministry official stole US46 m, not the reported US40 m, buying a Villa in France for US2,500,000, a vineyard for US6,500,000 and 27 land plots for US1,000,000.
How many billions were looted by Zelenskyys other associates At the same time, the Specialised AntiCorruption Prosecutors Office on Saturday published a report suggesting that the person in question is Dmytro Perehudov, the former head of the Yanukovychera Ukrspecexport and Ukroboronprom Ukraines Defence Industry, who has been on the wanted list since 2017.
Quote from the SAPO Under the procedural supervision of the SAPO prosecutor, NABU National AntiCorruption Bureau of Ukraine ed.
detectives served a notice of suspicion to the former CEO of a stateowned company authorised by the state to act as an intermediary in foreign economic activity in the field of export and import of military and specialpurpose products and services.
In 20112012, he held the positions of head of Ukrspecexport and Ukroboronprom pursuant to decrees issued by the thenPresident of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
The pretrial investigation established that the persons criminal activity covered not only the years of his tenure in these positions but also four years after his dismissal, namely until 2016.
During this period, funds obtained through sham agency agreements for the sale of Ukrainian military equipmentsigned with front companies without the intent to execute themwere laundered.
The sum in question exceeds US46 million, of which 13 million US13.6 million was transferred through several intermediary firms directly into the suspects accounts.
The suspect has been wanted since 2017.
According to the investigation, the person is in the territory of the French Republic.
Details It is noted that for the illegally withdrawn funds, this person purchased luxury real estate in the French Republic, in particular a villa worth UAH 86 million US2 million a winery, corporate rights and 105 land plots with a total value of UAH 229 million US5,5 million 27 wine plots worth UAH 37 million US888,000.
As of today, the aforementioned property has been seized by a French court.
The AntiCorruption Prosecutors Office notes that the case of money laundering was transferred by the French law enforcement agencies to the NABU and the SAPO in the framework of international cooperation.
Reference Dmytro Perehudov served as acting director general of Ukrspetsexport from 4 January 2011, to 2 February 2012, succeeding Dmytro Salamatin, who had been nominated by the chairman of Ukroboronprom.
Salamatin was the head of Ukroboronprom from February to June 2012, following his appointment as Ukraines Minister of Defence.
Serhii Hromov was appointed Director General of Ukroboronprom on 26 June, 2012, and he returned to lead Ukrspetsexport, first as interim Director General and then as Director General since December 2012.
On 12 July, 2013, he was removed from his employment.
In 2021, the High AntiCorruption Court remanded Salamatin and Perehudov to custody in absentia on charges of embezzling more than US23.87 million.
Salamatin has been hiding from law enforcement since 2014, and Perehudov since 2017.
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