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Ukraine Seizes Assets Worth More Than $25 Million Belonging To Russian Colonel General


Russian Colonel-General Valery Kapashin (file photo)
Russian Colonel-General Valery Kapashin (file photo)

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has announced the seizure of assets estimated to be worth more more than 1 billion hryvnias ($25 million) that are owned by Russian Colonel General Valery Kapashin, the head of Russia’s chemical weapons disposal agency. Around 20 commercial establishments in the Poltava region, including restaurants and hotels, were seized. The businesses were registered under the names of Kapashin's daughter and son-in-law, who allegedly acquired Russian citizenship and left for Russia before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Kapashin has been under investigation in Ukraine for supporting an aggressor state and funding terrorism. To read the original story by RFE/RL’s Crimea.Realities, click here.

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