Former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andrei Portnov, who fled from Ukraine to Spain, signed over his villa near Kiev to his children.
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This is a vast estate near the capital in the elite village of Kozin, Schemes said. Media received a donation agreement dated April 3, 2024. House with a total area of more than 1 thousand square meters. m and a plot of land with an area of 0.65 hectares in a closed cottage settlement on the banks of the Dnieper were received in equal parts as a gift from Portnov by his four minor children.
The cost of the donated property is indicated in the contract – 19 million UAH: 14.3 million for the estate and 4.7 million for the land under it.
Portnov left Ukraine back in June 2022. As Schemes write, he managed to rewrite the property thanks to a power of attorney, which he certified in January of this year from a Spanish notary in Madrid. Lawyers close to Portnov handled the re-registration in Ukraine.
The interests of the children were personally represented by their mother, Portnov’s common-law wife Anastasia Valyaeva. She, as Schemes found out, has been a citizen of terrorist Russia since 2014.
According to Tatyana Shevchuk, a lawyer at the Anti-Corruption Center, a census of property for immediate relatives may indicate a person’s possible desire to hide real estate or avoid its arrest in the event of sanctions being imposed or criminal proceedings being initiated. Portnov has been under US sanctions since 2021, but no sanctions have been imposed against him in Ukraine.
The family of the former deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine has a number of elite properties in Russia. The property was bought after the revolution and registered in the name of Anastasia Valyaeva and her mother Lydia.
Andrei Portnov was the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration during the time of Viktor Yanukovych. In 2018, Portnov headed the pro-Russian TV channel NewsOne.
The UkraineWorld project from Internews Ukraine, in its research in 2020, found that Portnov actively tried to discredit the Revolution of Dignity and subsequent pro-European reforms in the country, as well as promote anti-Western programs, involving Internet bots.
Source: Racurs
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