The son of Viktor Yanukovych-era Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, pro-Russian politician Andriy Portnov, 29-year-old Ihor Portnov received temporary permission to leave Ukraine in March as a volunteer for humanitarian aid.. He went to Poland but never returned.. It is reported by "

Journalists received information from several independent sources with access to border crossing data, according to which, on March 22, 2022, the Lviv Regional Military Administration entered Igor Portnov into the Put system as a person of military age who was allowed to leave the country for a period of one month. This decision was made by the Lviv OVA from the appeal from the NGO " The next day, March 23, 2022, Portnov Jr. crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border at the Krakovets checkpoint, but did not return to Ukraine on September 6.

Together with him, 23-year-old Ivan Poddubnov, the nephew of Andrei Portnov, the son of his sister Yulia Poddubnova, also left, who has not yet returned..

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Igor Portnov ignored all requests from Schemes journalists to comment. "

“We have more than 200 applications per day from public organizations to be entered into the Way system, if translated into the number of people, this is more than 2,000 people a day who go for humanitarian aid. Unfortunately, there are many such problems.. The administration does not have the function of checking, the possibilities of how to check it,” said Yuriy Buchko, deputy chairman of the Lviv OVA.

According to the analytical system YouControl, NGO " Its founders are Yuri Khodzyuk and Viktor Pentak. Viktor Pentak, in a comment to Schemes journalists, explained that since 2015 he “is related to the organization only on paper” and did not apply on behalf of the NGO to the Lviv police department about Igor Portnov leaving the country. Yuri Khodzyuk, according to Pentak, has been abroad for the last two years. I was unable to communicate with him..

The head of the Lviv cell of this NGO, Artem Khmyz, said that his organization did not apply to the Lviv District Office about the departure of Portnov Jr. from Ukraine.

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Recall that Andriy Portnov himself left Ukraine on June 3, 2022 through the checkpoint in the Transcarpathian region " Then the State Border Service, in response to an information request from Schemes, stated that they would not answer the question on what basis Portnov crossed the border during the restrictions on the exit of men of military age, since “the content of the request concerns the provision of personal data, regulated by the Law of Ukraine “On the Protection of Personal Data.

Note that Andrey Portnov has been under US sanctions since December 2021.. He was included in the list of persons under the so-called Magnitsky Act, which includes officials involved in human rights violations and large-scale corruption.. Andrey Portnov until 2014 in the Presidential Administration under Viktor Yanukovych was responsible for the direction of the judiciary. In the US, he is accused of trading influence on Ukrainian courts.

However, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine did not impose sanctions against Portnov.. In September 2021, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov explained it this way: “We have so many threats, besides Portnov, such as Portnov – very, very many. But you have to have reasons, arguments.”.

In March 2022, Schemes journalists established that Andrey Portnov's family owns real estate in Moscow together with friends of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and also showed Portnov's estate near Kyiv.