The Kyiv Court of Appeal dismissed the complaint of Oleksandr Rechitsky, former chairman of Versobank’s supervisory board and ex-head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional branch of the Association of Taxpayers of Ukraine, on the removal of the arrest from more than 2.65 million dollars seized in individual safe boxes No. 104 and No. 1044 in the office of Garant Dnepr Zashchita LLC during a special operation by law enforcement officers to “force the Dnieper”, when in the spring of 2021 the security forces “packed” 49-year-old Sergey Oleinik and his peer Lasha Dzhachvliani on suspicion of spreading criminal influence (known in the status so-called “thieves in law” nicknamed “Umka” / “Umka Dneprovsky” and “Lasha Svan” / “Lasha Ochamchira”). The corresponding decision was made on January 12, 2023 by a board of servants of Themis, consisting of the presiding judge Olga Yurdyga and participating judges Tatyana Frich and Vladimir Melnik, writes Detective-Info.
It follows from its text: after being indirectly connected with Umka and his associates, in October last year, Rechitsky openly declared the rights to the funds confiscated during the “shmons” in the case of thieves in law (which was previously reported on the pages of Detective Info), on November 1, 2022, the investigator, judge of the Pechersky District Court of the capital, Kristina Konstantinova, decided to arrest the finances. According to its wording, the security forces consider the finances from the bank boxes in the “Garant Dnepr Zashchita” the so-called “thieves’ common fund”, the holder of which was Sergey Oleinik. Since May 2021, these capitals have been recognized as material evidence by the decision of the investigator, and now they have been arrested.
Recall that in the spring of 2021, the National Police reported on the seizure of the so-called “common fund” in the amount of 3.2 million dollars. during the operation to detain Sergei Oleinik and Lasha Dzhachvliani. According to the investigation, in addition to finances, law enforcement officers found “expensive vehicles, 27 mobile phones, 15 bank cards, digital media, cold and firearms with cartridges, more than 60 pieces of valuable jewelry.”
At the same time, as already reported on the pages of Detective-Info, in the Umki iPhone they found photographs of the so-called “lists”, as well as accounting reports on a probable common fund, the holder of which is considered to be a criminal general.
At the end of December 2022, the accusation against Oleinik and Dzhachvliani of spreading criminal influence (part 3 of article 255-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) was sent to the Pechersky Palace of Themis, the jurisdiction of this proceeding should be determined by the cassation instance.
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