The State Bureau of Investigation came with searches to the house of a business partner and political associate of Viktor Medvedchuk, suspected of treason, Taras Kozak, in the suburbs of Lviv.

According to the publication " Lviv”, investigators search the property of the Kazakov family in Sokolniki near Lviv. Information about the searches was confirmed by the representative of the territorial department of the State Bureau of Investigation Tatiana Muravel.

“I can only confirm that searches are being carried out. More information only after the completion of the searches,” Tatiana Muravel said..

In Sokolniki, in the vicinity of Lviv, there are two houses on the same street, one of which belongs to Taras Kozak, and another one belongs to his ex-wife Ruslana Kozak. They have two common children.

“The searches were carried out in the house belonging to Taras Kozak, there is no information about the second house,” the newspaper writes..

Recall that in May last year, Taras Kozak was informed of suspicion of high treason and attempted plunder of national resources in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea.. Kozak is currently on the international wanted list..

In February 2021, President Volodymyr Zelensky, by his decree, put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to impose five-year sanctions on ZiK, NewsOne, 112 Ukraine TV channels and their formal owner, Taras Kozak, a member of the Opposition Platform for Life parliamentary faction. The planes of Kazak and Viktor Medvedchuk were also under sanctions, on which they regularly flew to Moscow, bypassing the ban on direct flights with the Russian Federation..

Sanctions imply blocking of assets, economic and financial activities, cancellation of licenses.

The basis for the sanctions was the involvement of Kazak's companies in the purchase of coal in ORDLO, which is regarded as financing of terrorism.