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The Prosecutor General’s Office told about the preparation of a request for extradition of Gennady Bogolyubov

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Ukrainian oligarch and president of the Dnipro Jewish community Hennadiy Boholyubov, who, according to the State Security Service of Ukraine, illegally crossed the state border, is about to be extradited to Ukraine. Earlier, he was put on an international wanted list by the investigator’s ruling. Now, the Prosecutor-General’s Office is preparing a request for his extradition. In response to an inquiry by the Komersant ukrainskyi business daily, this was reported by the GPO.

“…we inform you that the Main Investigative Department of the State Bureau of Investigation has materials of criminal proceedings on suspicion of B. in the commission of criminal offenses under part Z of article 357, part Z of article 27, part 2 of article 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The procedural management of pre-trial investigation in these criminal proceedings is carried out by prosecutors of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the sphere of defense of the Office of the Prosecutor General.

The requirements of article 575 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine are currently being met in order to submit a request for extradition to the competent authorities of foreign States. Other requested information constitutes the secrecy of pre-trial investigation and in view of Art. 222 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine may not be made public”, – noted in the UCP.

Art. 575 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine defines the procedure for preparing documents and sending requests and provides as follows:

• 1. A request for extradition of a person to Ukraine shall be prepared by an investigator, a prosecutor supervising the observance of laws during a pre-trial investigation, or a court hearing the case or by which a sentence has been passed, in compliance with the requirements stipulated by this Code and the relevant international treaty of Ukraine.
• 2. The request shall be made in writing and shall contain data on the person whose extradition is requested, the circumstances and qualification of the crime committed by him/her.

Bogolyubov’s case

Earlier, the Pechersky district court of Kiev decided to arrest Hennadiy Boholyubov, who left Ukraine back in the summer using forged documents.

According to the GBR, Bogolyubov illegally left the territory of Ukraine accompanied by his close relative on June 24, 2024, while on the train “Kiev – Chelm”. According to his documents, the oligarch did not cross the Ukrainian border. He left on an invalid passport of a citizen of Ukraine, which is physically in Ukraine and did not leave the country.

“At the same time to the Polish border guards oligarch showed already his personal passport of a citizen of Ukraine to travel abroad.”

– specified in the GBR.

According toUkrainska Pravda, Bogolyubov left Ukraine on the passport of a resident of the Volyn region, 67-year-old Mykola Kupriyanovich Syumak, who lost his passport back in the spring of 2022.

PrivatBank case

The VAKS ruling previously revealed that PrivatBank money was laundered, among other things, through the Jewish Community of Ukraine.

The community was founded in 1999, but became active after Igor Kolomoisky was elected president. The founders and members of the community are Jewish public organizations and associations. The main office is located in the Menorah JCC, Dnipro city.

Gennady Bogolyubov is a representative of the leadership of the Jewish Community of Ukraine and heads the Jewish Community of Dnipro in the status of president.

According to the investigation, in total, the former owners of the so-called PrivatBank group withdrew more than UAH 5.8 billion from PrivatBank. In this proceeding Igor Kolomoisky has the status of a suspect and is in pre-trial detention. At the same time, some media outlets linked Bogolyubov’s sudden escape from Ukraine to the alleged intentions of law-enforcement agencies to hand him a suspicion in the PrivatBank case.