How Medvedchuk became an oligarch: new documents on the structure of Putin's best man's wealth.
may still have a stake in the scandalous EDAPS consortium, which for a long time monopolized the sphere of protected printing in Ukraine. This is stated in the Bihus.Info investigation.
As stated in the material, the editorial office received copies of internal documents from the computer of an associate of Medvedchuk regarding the structure of his assets. In particular, it mentions the share of Putin's godfather in the EDAPS consortium.
According to journalists, Medvedchuk received a share in the YEDAPS consortium through the chain of companies STAPRELA HOLDINGS (Cyprus) — FOILS OVERSEAS (Nevis) — TRUSTSOR OVERSEAS (Nevis), which are controlled by his wife Oksana Marchenko.
As is known, YEDAPS used by the favor of Ukrainian officials in 2004, when Viktor Medvedchuk headed the Administration of President Leonid Kuchma. Then YEDAPS became a monopoly in the field of production of passports, driver's licenses, excise stamps and other documents.
Journalist Yuriy Butusov wrote that Medvedchuk may be behind the “Holography” company, which started the YEDAPS consortium. Back in 2001, it received from the state the right to develop and sell holographic protection to state bodies.
Documents obtained by Bihus.Info state that Medvedchuk had a 20% stake in YEDAPS through trust schemes.
The journalists emphasize that the ownership structure of the companies that formed the EDAPS consortium does not allow checking whether the Medvedchuk-Marchenko companies specified in the scheme are among the beneficiaries of the consortium now. However, we can definitely say that all three companies (STAPRELA HOLDINGS, FOILS OVERSEAS, TRUSTSORE OVERSEAS) were declared by Medvedchuk in 2019 and 2020, when he became a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
In addition, the documents received by the editors helped to confirm the existence previously Medvedchuk's shares in the Ukrainian gas production companies Naftogazvydobuvannya and Ukrnaftoburinnia.
There is also documentary evidence that in 2004, according to Mevedchuk's declaration, the Cypriot company LENDRINO COMMERCIAL claimed a share in the metallurgical giant Kryvorizhstal.
The company was sent for privatization during the presidency of Leonid Kuchma in 2004. At the same time, the winner of the privatization competition was the consortium “Investment and Metallurgical Union” of oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov and Kuchma's son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk.
According to documents from the Cyprus registry, immediately after the announcement of the victory of the consortium in the competition, the Cypriot firm from Medvedchuk's declaration LENDRINO COMMERCIAL sent $158 million to the “Investment and Metallurgical Union” in exchange for an 18.75% stake in the consortium.
We would like to remind you that the Lychakiv District Court of Lviv will be closed on Thursday, June 23 started a preliminary hearing in the case regarding the accusation of People's Deputy of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk for high treason and attempted theft of national values.
The head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov stated that the leader of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the godfather of Russian dictator Viktor Medvedchuk cooperates with the investigation.
