Ukrainian millionaires are hiding in Spain to avoid being drafted by the army

The Ukrainian press dubbed Spanish battalion according to millionaire conspiracy accompanied by their children they have refugee on the Iberian Peninsula to be away from the war and hide their wealth. The name comes from the destination of the fugitives, but is also intended as an irony about the cowardice of those under investigation for fleeing the war effort to face the Russian invasion.

One of the members of this network that is already being investigated is military commissar from the city from Odessa, Yevgeny Borisov, who was removed from office in April. At the time, no explanation was offered for this decision, other than an investigation by the Kyiv newspaper Ukrainian Pravda revealed that this soldier had bought it himself villa in Marbella estimated at three million euros and put it in the name of his mother. In addition, he acquired Mercedes estimated at a quarter of a million. All these operations were carried out once the troops Vladimir Putin they crossed the border and Ukraine was fighting for its survival. The authorities in Kiev have already asked their Spanish colleagues to help them investigate the financial movements of this soldier.

The Ukrainian daily revealed more dark affairs connected with Borisov. Journalists traveled to Marbella and located there the son of his driver. This young man, of draft age, works as a driver and assistant to the mother of the military commissar. But the report also shows the descendants of another Ukrainian millionaire, Oleksandr Herehawho has a residence in luxury property from the city of Castellón Benicassim.

Yanukovych’s shadow

These are not the only cases of escape to Spain that appear in journalistic research. IN luxury development from the city Valencia they found Dimitri Senichenko and his family. This tycoon, who was already hiding in Monaco, was accused of being illegally appropriated 13.5 million euros from Ukrainian companies. Journalists were also on the trail high-ranking Ukrainian officials who were associated with former president Viktor Yanukovychwho led the country between 2010 and 2014. People from his circle are shown in luxury villas in Valencia and Malaga. Yanukovych’s name came up again in the early days of the Russian invasion, as intelligence sources indicated that he was the man Putin had chosen to install as a puppet of the puppet government in Kiev if he succeeded in capturing the city.

Pictures of the report on the corrupt conspiracy of the Spanish battalion they are especially bloody for the Ukrainian population. Refugees live in areas of standing tall and travel in convertible Mercedes between sunny beaches and luxury facilities. Its reality is not the reality of a subjugated country constant shelling Russians, with problems with the supply of electricity or drinking water, and in the uncertainty of what will be their fate.

These investigations, on the other hand, put a magnifying glass on one of the president’s biggest problems, Vladimir Zelenskywhen they manage their contacts with Europe, the United States and England to ask for help. Corruption of the country is one of the highest in the region and the government in Kiev is putting all its efforts into cleaning up its image and preventing the West from limiting its support for fear of ending up in the hands of corrupt people. In May of this year, he already organized purge in the Supreme Courtwhere is the plot of illegal bribery. Two months earlier, he created within the Ministry of Defense corruption prevention department with the aim of processing the diversion of money and humanitarian aid.