He was Zelensky’s confidant: what is known about MP Shevchenko, who is suspected of treason (video)
14 November 2024 17:01
On November 14, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) notified the MP of suspicion of high treason. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the official Telegram channel of the SBI.
As confirmed by a comprehensive psychological, linguistic and military examination, the MP began to harm Ukraine’s defense and information security even before the full-scale invasion of Russia.
Thus, in 2021, he published false information about the absence of a threat of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation from the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
Investigators also established his contacts with representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus after he entered the parliamentary rostrum with the flag of this country in September 2020.
The MP recorded programs on his own channels and gave interviews to pro-Russian bloggers and experts. After that, this content was distributed to propaganda media in Russia in order to create a public position in the aggressor’s country that this was the official position of a representative of the Ukrainian authorities. In the programs, the MP disseminated information that asserted in the mass consciousness the idea that the Ukrainian government had brought the country to a complete collapse, loss of territory and people, and was unable to achieve peace. The MP also imposed the idea that Ukraine was no longer able to win and should negotiate with Russia on any terms.
He also disseminated information aimed at discrediting Western partners and European values.
According to the investigation, under the patronage of the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, the MP and his close relatives conducted active business with representatives of this country, including in the electricity and fertilizer markets. Buying goods there at low prices, they imported them to Ukraine through another European country and sold them at much higher prices.
the “favorable regime” on the part of the Belarusian authorities allowed the MP to receive 1.5 million euros in net profit in six months. At the same time, he was able to transfer only 500 thousand euros to Ukraine. The rest was not received due to the blocking of questionable transactions by the financial monitoring of a European bank.
It was also recorded that during this time the MP purchased and registered three luxury cars for his relatives with a total value of 500 thousand US dollars.
It should be noted that the SBI does not name the MP suspected of treason. However, the media report that it is Yevhen Shevchenko.
If the politician is proven guilty, he faces up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Meanwhile, the Main Intelligence Directorate said that MP Shevchenko, who called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to negotiate with Russia, was not their employee. The intelligence service believes that such actions should be adequately assessed by the competent authorities.
“The person in question is not an employee of the GUR,” said Andriy Yusov, a representative of the agency.
He also added that any step towards justifying the occupier, attempts to shift responsibility from the aggressor to the victim is obviously warming up the enemy.
What is known about MP Yevhen Shevchenko
Yevhen Shevchenkowas born in 1972. Graduated from the Classical Private University (Zaporizhzhia), qualification “lawyer”. He is an entrepreneur. He has held senior positions in Eurocape New Energy, ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H., Agrostal, and Tsvetmet. Previously, he worked as an electrician at a collective farm.
In 2012, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada of the 7th convocation in constituency #75 (Zaporizhzhia) as an independent candidate.
In 2014, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th convocation from the party “Volia” in constituency #210 (Pryluky, Chernihiv region).
He was an authorized representative of the candidate for the post of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi in the 2019 elections.
In 2019, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party in constituency #76 (Zaporizhzhia region) as a non-partisan. Member of the faction of the same name. Member of the Committee on Economic Development. According to the analytics of the CHESNO movement, in 2019, Shevchenko became the leader among the MPs of Zaporizhzhia in terms of the number of amendments to legislative acts submitted.
Shevchenko was also a frequent guest on the TV channel of Putin’s godfather Medvedchuk, 112. In October 2019, Shevchenko took part in a propaganda program on Russia’s Channel 1, where he told how bad nationalists are in Ukraine.
In June 2020, he signed a decree dismissing Avakov from the post of Interior Minister.
In August 2020, Shevchenko congratulated the illegally elected president of Belarus on his re-election and called on Belarusians to forgive Alexander Lukashenko for his “sins and crimes.”
on April 20, 2021, he went to meet with self-proclaimed President of Belarus Lukashenko. Subsequently, Oleksandr Kornienko, deputy head of the Servant of the People faction, said that the trip was Yevhen’s own initiative, and that party representatives would demand explanations. In Minsk, he said that a third of Ukrainians want Lukashenko to be their president.
on May 23, 2021, when a Ryanair plane was forced to land in Belarus and opposition leader Roman Protasevich was detained, Shevchenko praised Lukashenko.
on May 24, 2021, the Servant of the People faction announced the expulsion of Shevchenko from its membership.
on March 7, 2022, after the outbreak of the war with Russia, the Security Service of Ukraine detained MP Yevhen Shevchenko while trying to cross the border with Poland.
From February 24 to June 1, 2022, according to the analytics of the CHESNO Movement, he missed all the meetings of the Verkhovna Rada during the war for which there is data.
In July 2022, he appeared in the Verkhovna Rada for the first time, wearing an unauthorized Armed Forces uniform. MPs from the European Solidarity and former colleagues of the Servant of the People MP forced Yevhen Shevchenko to leave the session hall.
According to the analytics of the CHESNO Movement, Yevhen Shevchenko is on the list of truants among the MPs of the 9th convocation. According to the research, Yevhen Shevchenko missed 53% of the votes between the beginning of 2022 and May 2023. In addition, the parliamentary group Restoration of Ukraine, which includes the MP, has the highest percentage of absenteeism among parliamentarians. In the same year, Yevhen Shevchenko voted against a bill to ban the UOC (MP).
He also said that he had written a letter to Donald Trump and J. De Vance to help end authoritarianism and dictatorship in Ukraine’s political life.
