Presidential website changes text of decree on sanctions against Poroshenko and Zhevago
14 February 22:23
The text of the annex to the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on sanctions against former President Petro Poroshenko and four businessmen, enacted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decree, has been changed on the president’s website, Komersant ukrainskyi reports
The amendments corrected factual errors made by the document’s authors.
Now the document correctly indicates the registration number of Poroshenko’s taxpayer registration card (identification code). In the version of the document published the day before, it had 11 digits instead of 10.
In addition, the document corrected a mistake in the date of birth of businessman Kostiantyn Zhevago, who was also sanctioned.
Initially, Zhevago’s date of birth was listed as January 7, 1957, although it is known that he was born in 1974.
The President’s Office also corrected the information in the document about Viktor Medvedchuk’s Ukrainian citizenship, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself had revoked two years ago.
On February 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his traditional evening address that the National Security and Defense Council had imposed sanctions:
“Everyone who destroyed the national security of Ukraine and helped Russia must be held accountable.”
The President said that the billions earned by surrendering Ukraine’s interests should work for the benefit of Ukraine. He did not say whom exactly he meant.
After that, Poroshenko published an address and said that the sanctions were imposed against him. He called the decision unconstitutional.
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Two mistakes were found in the appendix to the NSDC decision to impose sanctions against Petro Poroshenko, published on the website of the President of Ukraine. The mistakes were pointed out by Iryna Gerashchenko, MP and co-chair of the European Solidarity faction.
What do the sanctions against Poroshenko, Kolomoisky, Boholyubov and others provide for?
on February 13, the decree imposing the sanctions was officially published. In addition to Poroshenko, the National Security and Defense Council also imposed restrictive measures against Ihor Kolomoisky, Hennadiy Boholyubov, Kostyantyn Zhevago, and Viktor Medvedchuk.
The sanctions against all five are indefinite and identical, and include 17 restrictions:
- deprivation of state awards of Ukraine and other forms of honors;
- temporary deprivation of the right to use and dispose of assets
- complete cessation of trade operations;
- complete cessation of transit of resources, flights and transportation through the territory of Ukraine;
- preventing the withdrawal of capital from Ukraine;
- suspension of economic and financial obligations;
- prohibition of participation in privatization and lease of state property;
- a ban on the use of the radio frequency spectrum of Ukraine;
- complete termination of electronic communication services and use of electronic communication networks;
- a ban on public and defense procurement of goods, works and services;
- a complete ban on the entry of foreign non-military vessels and warships into the territorial sea of Ukraine, its inland waters, ports and aircraft into the airspace of Ukraine or landing on the territory of Ukraine;
- a ban on increasing the authorized capital of business entities, enterprises in which the sanctioned person owns 10 percent or more of the authorized capital or has influence on the management of the legal entity or its activities;
- introduction of additional measures in the field of environmental, sanitary, phytosanitary and veterinary control;
- termination of trade agreements, joint projects, and industrial programs in certain areas, including security and defense;
- a ban on the transfer of technologies and rights to intellectual property;
- a ban on the acquisition of land plots;
- other sanctions that comply with the principles of their application established by this law (prohibition to enter into contracts and transactions; prohibition to execute transactions with securities issued by this person; prohibition to pay dividends or other payments related to corporate rights (ownership of shares, stocks, units) in favor of the person against whom the sanctions were imposed and persons acting on his behalf).
