“Is Serhiy Tarasov facing an international search? The agricultural baron from Kirovohrad region, who is suspected of appropriating state lands, does not plan to return to Ukraine. The owner of the company, Serhiy Tarasov, who is wanted by the SBU, is abroad and has hired American lobbyists.”, — write on: unn.ua
Currently, the materials of criminal proceedings No. 42023000000000249, which covers the period 2015-2021, are open for review, after which the trial will begin. But without the millionaire farmer, because Serhiy Tarasov is still abroad.
In connection with hiding from investigative bodies, the SBU declared Tarasova wanted a year ago. However, the suspect does not plan to return, the lawyers are sure that he will be arrested in Ukraine. At the same time, they claim that Serhiy Tarasov went to Europe for treatment and cannot return because “the doctors won’t let him go.” At the same time, the lawyers themselves claim that the agricultural baron is planning a trip to the USA, where he recently hired PR lobbyists whose task is to whiten Tarasov’s reputation. At the same time, the lawyer admits that this may harm Ukraine.
“The fact that Tarasov is going to America now will be negative, I am not a politician, but I think it will have a negative component, since Tarasov is going to talk about the pressure on businessmen,” said lawyer Oleksandr Gardetskyi.
The lawyers admit that there was a takeover of state land in which the employees of Serhiy Tarasov’s agricultural holding were involved, but the owner himself allegedly did not know about it.
At the same time, according to the version of the investigation, Tarasov involved employees of the land department of the I&U Group group of companies subordinate to him, whose role was to search for persons on whom the fictitious registration of land plots in the territory of Kirovohrad region was carried out in the future, or to search for passport data of such persons, from on whose behalf powers of attorney were issued without their knowledge and participation. In particular, the plots were allegedly allocated to the participants of the anti-terrorist operation.
Earlier it became known that Serhiy Tarasov and other suspects in the case of taking over state lands are being defended by lawyers from the orbit of the banned OPZZH party, in particular, the ex-lawyer of fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych.