The Austrian prosecutor’s office closed the criminal case involving Boris Lozhkin and Sergei Kurchenko because the Prosecutor General’s Office failed to provide the necessary evidence.
The case concerns the transfer in 2013 of 130 million euros to a number of Lozhkin’s offshore companies from Kurchenko’s companies during the purchase and sale of the Ukrainian Media Holding UMH.
The Vienna Prosecutor’s Office has repeatedly asked the GPU to conduct an investigation into the origin of these funds, since at the time the money was transferred, the young oligarch Kurchenko was part of the inner circle of former President Viktor Yanukovych and the funds may have a criminal origin.
However, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is not investigating this criminal case, and the Austrian prosecutor’s office has no circumstances that would provide grounds for further investigation. Therefore, the case was closed.
Let us recall that the Vienna Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal case in connection with the purchase of Boris Lozhkin’s UMH media holding by Kurchenko’s structures in 2013. The criminal case was opened by the Austrian Prosecutor’s Office after Sergei Kurchenko was placed on the international wanted list and sanctions were imposed on his accounts.
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