>>518947202
>oh no, you can't remove the gangster with the russian citizenship from power!
In 2016, the leaked Panama Papers said that Trukhanov held Russian citizenship, despite Ukrainian law banning dual citizenship. The Panama Papers also show that he has "a substantial business empire in Ukraine through companies registered in the British Virgin Islands", with a suburb of Moscow listed as his place of residence. On 9 April 2016, Eduard Gurwits, ex-mayor of Odesa, affirmed that Trukhanov possesses three foreign passports: two Russian and one Greek. Trukhanov in 2017, through a Russian court, annulled his Russian passport. Moreover, the Paradise papers indicate that, according to the Italian state police Deputy Commissioner, Trukhanov trained members of a Ukrainian criminal gang in "hand-to-hand combat and sniper shooting with high precision weapons.
As part of an investigation, Trukhanov was detained upon his arrival in Ukraine, at Ukraine's Boryspil International Airport on 14 February 2018 suspected of embezzlement of property through abuse of power.[38] He was later released on bail. In July 2019, the Odesa District Court found Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov and other defendants not guilty.[39][40][41]
He has been named as part of a Ukrainian crime syndicate who laundered money through London by buying multi-million pound properties in the city.[42] In October 2022 he was charged in an ongoing corruption investigation concerning $18.5 million in municipal losses,[43] and on 4 May 2023 he was detained on charges of embezzling $2.5 million in city funds.[44] He was released the next day after paying $350,000 bail.