SUSPECTED CRIMINALS RUNNING FOR CRIMEAN AND UKRAINIAN LEGISLATURES

Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Djemilev is reportedly among 13 prominent members of the ruling Our Ukraine Party being under secret investigation ordered by the Minister for the Internal Affaires of the Ukraine. Mr. Djemilev is suspected of embezzling about one million dollars through The Crimea Foundation headed by him and the Imdat Bank. The stolen funds were granted to Crimean Tatar families who had grabbed public lands and built houses on them. Djemilev is also being investigated for his supposed ties with Tatar criminal group Imdat which is in control of Tatar businesses in the Crimea.
Another official who got under police scrutiny is former “orange” premier for the Crimea Anatoly Matvienko. Minister for internal affaires Yuri Lutsenko ordered to provide him with information on Matvienko’s brushes with the law in the past. He presumably had lobbied the interests of a liquor producing company in Vinnitsa when he was the governor of the region. In 2002, Mr. Matvienko is said to have received funds for his election campaign from Mr. Brody, the head of the Aiva firm. Earlier, Matvienko had supposedly helped Mr. Brody to obtain illegal reimbursement for the value added tax.
Yuri Lutsenko’s department is also investigating pro-Yushchenko activist from Yalta Alexander Chabanov running for the Crimean Supreme Soviet. Мr. Chabanov is an old buddy of orange oligarch Chervonenko and is suspected to have links with Crimean criminal group Seilem. He came to the Crimea from Vladivostok (Russia) where he had been involved in a number of financial schemes, convicted and sentenced to six years.
This information has appeared on several Ukrainian Internet sites with reference to an unidentified source in the Ministry for the Internal Affaires of the Ukraine.