Maldives and Criminal Case: SBI Opens Case Against Poroshenko

Another blow to Ukraine's former president.

The State Bureau of Investigation has opened a criminal case over the possible organization by Petro Poroshenko of the illegal transportation of people across the state border during a trip to the Maldives in 2018.

This is reported by UNIAN, citing the press service of the State Bureau of Investigation.

According to an investigation by Schemes, Poroshenko went on vacation to the Maldives from January 1 to 8 last year on a private plane with 7 passengers on board who did not pass passport control and travelled under names other than their own.

Later, journalists found that Poroshenko and his family arrived at the 5-star Cheval Blanc resort hotel in the middle of the Indian Ocean on January 1, and on January 8, 8 passengers from the same delegation returned to the capital — 3 men and 5 women.

At the same time, officially, none of the passengers' names included the president, any members of his family, or other well-known names.

The Strana.ua publication, in its investigation, found that the president's family has passports in the names of Vera Lazarieva, Ivan Dekhteriev, Evheniia Safonova, Oleksandr Syshchykov, Kateryna Boieva, Vitalii Kokorin, Olena Senchenko and Olha Herasymenko.

Poroshenko himself has said that he crossed the border with his own passport during the trip to the Maldives.

Earlier, it became known that the former president of Ukraine, having written a statement renouncing state protection, left the country's territory.