According to the people's deputy, Portnov spent up to four days in Ukraine. The meeting with Mindic was probably not alone, he claims.
“Several of my sources confirm that he came to [элитный поселок под Киевом] Koncha Zaspa, even someone claims to be several times, ”the parliamentarian says on the video.
Zheleznyak indicates that both are connected with the suspect in several cases by businessman Igor Kolomoisky: Portnov allegedly provided him with legal services for a long time, and Mindic was considered his “proxy”.
“What was this meeting? There are several options. Someone says that some business, someone about some kind of business, someone even claims that it was a conversation about new political projects,” Zheleznyak noted.
In addition to Mindic, Portnov saw during a trip to Ukraine with Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of President and Director of the State Bureau of Investigations Alexand Sukhachev, but this was “more personal” and informal in nature, the deputy also said.
On May 29, Portnova and Sukhachev and Tatarov wrote “Ukrainian Pravda” with reference to sources about negotiations. According to the publication, the ex-official who was subsequently killed came to Ukraine on May 17-18.
Context
Portnov was an adviser to Yanukovych, who escaped from the country, 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 to Ukraine He returned in May 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 court and law enforcement devices 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.
On the morning of May 21, he was shot in Spain Near the elite school in Madrid, where he brought the children. The media wrote that a group of people could make an attack. They fired five shots and disappeared from the crime scene. The body of the murdered politician was going to return to Ukraine.
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. On May 29, UP reported that Spain refused to create a joint working group to investigate the murder of Portnov initiated by Ukraine. Spanish investigators do not exclude the version of the “trace of the Ukrainian special services”, suggested the source of the publication. According to their version, initiating participation in the investigation, Kyiv tried to access the materials of the investigation, phone numbers and other Portnov gadgets, which may contain sensitive information for the Ukrainian side.
Ukrainian law enforcement officers said they were conducting their investigation.
