Portnov was shot at the gates of the American school of Madrid in the Dairy de Alaron, to which the children of Simeone and Pereira go, the article says.
Portnov’s murder occurred at 9.15, at that time the parents returned from school, after they took their children to lessons, writes the media. It is noted that the Simeone family just took her daughters Francesca and Valentine to school.
Pereira emphasized that the moment of the murder of Portnov was “very difficult” for her family and that this is a “very delicate topic”.
She added that “the truth is that it was a situation that leaves behind unpleasant sensations.”
The media adds that Pereira refused to disclose the details of this issue.
Context
Portnova Killed In Spain in the morning of May 21. He was shot near an elite school in Madrid, into which he brought children. The media wrote that a group of people could make an attack. They fired five shots and disappeared from the crime scene. The Spanish police suggested that the murder of Portnov could be associated with the war in Ukraine. Investigators also consider the version of information related to organized crime.
Portnov was an adviser to the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and was responsible for the legal support of his activities. From April 2010 to April 2011, he was deputy head of AP, and in January – February 2014 – the first deputy head of AP. After the revolution of dignity, Portnov went abroad, he returned to Ukraine in May in 2019. In June 2022, Portnov again left Ukraine.
Since December 2021 Portnov Was under the sanctions of the United States. They were introduced against the former deputy head of the AP For bribery in the judicial and law enforcement apparatus of Ukraine, the use of its influence for bribery in Ukrainian courts, as well as for “undermining the reform efforts.” He was called the “gray cardinal” of the judiciary of Ukraine. Portnov, as recalls “BBC News Ukraine”, under the presidency of Yanukovych, was actually an ideologist of the judicial and legal reform of those times, influenced the country's judicial system. This influence, as experts surveyed say, he retained then.
“Ukrainian Pravda”, citing sources, wrote that Portnov visited Ukraine a few days before the murder in Madrid.
