Viktor Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko has been put on the wanted list in Ukraine. The corresponding card is published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country. It says that Marchenko has been hiding from the pre-trial investigation authorities since March 24, 2023.
At the end of February 2023, the court seized the property of Marchenko, “suspected of financing Russian occupational groups,” in the amount of more than $150 million. Prior to this, the SBU charged Medvedchuk's wife with financing the National Guard. As the investigation established, Marchenko used the assets of three investment companies in Kyiv to register a company in Yalta with an authorized capital of a billion rubles. This Crimean company signed contracts with the structures of the National Guard and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for their protection. The scheme continued to work after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, also known as Vladimir Putin's godfather, was detained by the SBU in April 2022 after he escaped from house arrest. He was accused of high treason and attempted embezzlement of national resources in Crimea. In September 2022, Medvedchuk was exchanged for the defenders of Azovstal. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stripped him of his Ukrainian citizenship.
