Viktor Medvedchuk. File photoMOSCOW, April 28Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said that 467,000 dollars and 87,000 euros were seized during a search of the housekeeper of Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk. and 87 thousand euros The search was conducted during the investigation of criminal proceedings under part 4 of article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of actions committed with the aim of forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power, changing the boundaries of the territory or state border of Ukraine)» , — the Strana.ua edition quotes Venediktova as saying. The Security Service of Ukraine earlier announced the detention of the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform — For Life party, Viktor Medvedchuk, on behalf of Volodymyr Zelensky. Later, Zelensky offered Russia to exchange Medvedchuk for captured citizens of Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin will monitor the fate of Medvedchuk and urge European politicians to do so. Later, Medvedchuk's wife, Oksana Marchenko, turned to Zelensky with a demand to release her husband. On the same day, she asked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to assist in the release of her husband. On October 8, 2021, Ukrainian law enforcement officers announced to Medvedchuk a new suspicion of treason and promoting terrorism. According to the head of the SBU, in 2014 Medvedchuk organized the supply of coal from the territory of Donbas not controlled by Kyiv in collusion with the top leadership of Ukraine. The court ruled that Medvedchuk be placed under house arrest.
