Igor Yusufov
Former Russian energy minister, now businessman Igor Yusufov has filed a lawsuit against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This was reported by Glavkom with reference to the data of the state portal Judicial Power of Ukraine. » October 19, 2022.
Medvedev's Purse is suing Zelensky over sanctions
According to this document, 13 types of sanctions were applied to the ex-Minister of Russia. Among them, asset lockup; complete cessation of trading operations; complete cessation of the transit of resources, flights and transportation through the territory of Ukraine; preventing the withdrawal of capital from Ukraine; a ban on participation in privatization, lease of state property; a ban on the acquisition of ownership of land.
The duration of these sanctions is 10 years.
According to the state portal “Judicial Power of Ukraine”, November 21, the Supreme Court held a lottery and appointed the composition of the court to consider the claim of the Russian. Elena Gubskaya was elected presiding in the case.
We add that, according to the NAPC, Igor Yusufov was a member of the board of directors of Gazprom for ten years. Now he owns an energy corporation that invests in oil and gas, mining and infrastructure companies, that is, it carries out commercial activities in sectors of the economy that provide a high revenue part of the Russian budget, which is responsible for the war in Ukraine, that is, a significant source of income for waging war.</p
In addition, the ex-minister of Russia has close ties with the regime that prepared and leads, contrary to the statutory documents of the United Nations, the war of conquest against Ukraine, in which crimes against humanity are committed and the genocide of the Ukrainian people takes place.
A number of Russian The media call Igor Yusufov the “purse” of the ex-President of Russia, and now Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. In particular, it was noted that the luxury yacht “Universe” worth $100 million is registered to Yusufov, but in fact it is used by Dmitry Medvedev's family. On the ship, according to proekt.media, the former Russian president and prime minister have an office and special communications, and in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation, ships of the Navy often accompany him.
Meanwhile, Russian journalists wrote that in 2020 on a yacht Medvedev's son Ilya Medvedev and Maxim Yusufov, the son of ex-Energy Minister Igor Yusufov, rested together.
Earlier, Yusufov tried to refute his close acquaintance with Medvedev, saying that he had no business relationship with him, “never any commercial issues ”they didn’t discuss.
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