At the request of the State Bureau of Investigation Kostyantyn Zhevaho was detained in Courchevel, documents for extradition are being prepared (VIDEO)

At the request of the State Bureau of Investigation, French law enforcers detained ex-MP, shareholder of JSC "Bank Finance and Credit" Kostyantyn Zhevaho in the elite resort of Courchevel.

In order to comply with the court decision to arrest the suspect, the Bureau's officers in close cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office have carried out a huge amount of work.

The SBI investigators, in particular, prepared a petition for detention in order to receive a request for the extradition (extradition) of the ex-people's deputy to 38 countries.  For several months, there was close cooperation with law enforcement agencies of different countries, including the justice, gendarmerie and police of the French Republic.

As a result, based on the information received by the investigation, on December 27, in one of the hotels in Courchevel, representatives of the Criminal Police of the French Republic detained a shareholder of JSC "Bank Finance and Credit".

After attempts to appeal the legality of the detention, the suspect agreed to leave together with representatives of the competent authorities of France.

Currently it is planned to elect extradition arrest of Zhevago in the court of Chambéry.

At the moment, the necessary package of documents for his extradition from the French Republic to Ukraine is being prepared.

It should be reminded that within the framework of the investigation of the criminal proceedings, Zhevaho was notified of suspicion of committing criminal offenses under Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 5 of Art. 191, Part 3 of Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and a number of top managers of the bank were also notified of suspicion. They organized a mechanism for wasting 113 million US dollars of a financial institution, which caused damage to the interests of the state and the bank's depositors

Currently, the property of the suspected oligarch and related legal entities has been seized. In particular, shares of his enterprises worth hundreds of millions of hryvnias, corporate rights of companies, 26 real estate objects. Also, the property of other legal entities related to the former MP was seized. Among other things, these are 14 property complexes, 21 parts of property complexes, 30 non-residential premises, 10 apartments.

Back in October 2020, the seized assets worth over UAH 300 million were transferred to the National Agency for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets (ARMA).