The court found former MP Oleg Tsaryov guilty of financing the war and confiscated his assets.
This is reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
The trial of Tsaryov was conducted in absentia, as he is located in Russia. Despite this, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison and had assets worth 460.6 million UAH confiscated:
Law enforcement officials explain that after the annexation of Crimea, Tsaryov registered his property on the peninsula according to Russian law. It has been established that money was transferred for the protection of his estate in Yalta.
Background. Earlier, Mind reported that the court upheld the decision on the confiscation of the factories owned by Russian billionaire Gorilovsky. His enterprises assist Russia in replacing unavailable goods from the EU.