The co-founder of the Privat group and President of the Dnipro Jewish community, Gennadiy Bogolyubov, has been put on the wanted list at the request of the State Bureau of Investigation.
This is stated on the official portal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reports Komersant ukrainskyi
Thus, the State Bureau of Investigation is looking for Bogolyubov on suspicion of committing crimes under Article 357, part 3 (possession of a passport or other important personal document), Article 332, part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal crossing of the state border of Ukraine). In Ukraine, he faces a sentence of up to three years’ imprisonment.
At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs portal indicates that no restrictive measures have been applied to Bogolyubov so far.
According to the State Bureau of Investigation, Bogolyubov illegally left the territory of Ukraine accompanied by his close relative on 24 June 2024, while travelling on the Kyiv-Helm train. According to his documents, the oligarch did not cross the border of Ukraine. He travelled using an invalid passport of a citizen of Ukraine who is physically present in Ukraine and has not left the country.
“At the same time, the oligarch presented his personal passport of a citizen of Ukraine to the Polish border guards for travelling abroad,”
– the SBI clarified.
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The SBI detained the border guard who assisted Boholyubov in illegal border crossing in July this year.
According toUkrayinska Pravda, Bogolyubov left Ukraine using the passport of a resident of Volyn Oblast, 67-year-old Syumak Mykola Kupriyanovych, who lost his passport in the spring of 2022.
Bogolyubov arrived at the railway station in Kyiv on 23 June wearing a disguise. According to UP, the oligarch usually travelled around Kyiv in an armoured Mercedes, but this time he was a passenger in a Volkswagen driven by his wife, former Foreign Ministry official Emine Dzhaparova.
The UP sources also claimed that Bogolyubov and his wife allegedly planned to move to Vienna after she received a new position, but the order to transfer Dzhaparova was never issued.
Later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the decree appointing Dzhaparova to the position of Ukraine’s permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna had been cancelled. And she was fired.