On a wave of personnel rotations in various government bodies, Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko also lost his position. Yaroslav Zheleznyak, People's Deputy from the Holos faction, announced this in his Telegram..
The dismissal of Oleksiy Symonenko is most likely due to his scandalous New Year's trip during martial law on vacation abroad, which was recently reported by investigative journalist Mikhail Tkach on his Facebook.
“We continue to talk about the New Year holidays of our Ukrainian elites. Yes. And they were. Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleksiy Symonenko. Marbella (Spain). The photo was published by Simonenko's wife on Instagram. According to law enforcement sources, Symonenko was on vacation abroad for 10 days,” Mikhail Tkach wrote on January 20.
According to Tkach’s sources, Symonenko left Ukraine on December 30, 2022 through the Krakovets state of emergency in a Mercedes car with state number BC 0001 ХН, and returned on January 8, 2023 together.
The car that Simonenko traveled in is registered to the company HOLDING GRAND HOTEL LLC, owned by the wife of a well-known Lviv businessman and deputy Grigory Kozlovsky, singer and influencer Yulia Dumanskaya. The car was driven by a certain Roman Seretko, Kozlovsky's security guard and head of security at his other hotel complex Emily Resort.
Grigory Kozlovsky is not just a Lviv restaurateur and hotelier, but also a deputy of the regional council, the president of the Rukh football club and the owner of the Vinnikovskaya tobacco factory.
“Law enforcement officers of the level of Simonenko cannot but know what exactly a person related to Vinnikovskaya Tobacco Factory LLC, honorary president of FC Rukh and owner of Russia, beloved from the beginning of a full-scale invasion, among our elite hotels in the Lviv region is doing hospitably, and sometimes even for free.
The wife of Alexei Simonenko published stories from the holiday on her Instagram, but the very next day after this holiday became known to the public, she closed access to her account.
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Recall that Simonenko also worked as Deputy Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova and retained his position after her dismissal and the appointment of Andrey Kostin in her place.. As he wrote in his article for ZN. ua Chairman of the Board of StateWatch, lawyer Alexander Lemenov “What Prosecutor General Kostin is silent about? ” wrote that the decision to leave Symonenko in office was dictated by Bankova.
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Aleksey Simonenko once noted in the case of activist and blogger Sergei Sternenko, for whom the Prosecutor General's Office, even before all the examinations were carried out as part of the investigation, was preparing a suspicion in the case of his self-defense. Prosecutor Andrey Radionov, who handled the Sternenko case in 2020, said during an interrogation in court that the Office of the Prosecutor General intervened in the investigation and put pressure on him, while no one was looking for the “customers” of the attack. In particular, according to Andrey Rodionov, Aleksey Simonenko said that this was an instruction from the deputy head of the presidential office, Smirnov.