NSDC made mistakes in the sanctions list: what is wrong with Poroshenko and Zhevago’s data
14 February 00:36
Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has made inaccuracies in a document on sanctions imposed on a number of well-known individuals, including businessman Kostyantyn Zhevago and the fifth president of Ukraine, MP Petro Poroshenko, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
As it turned out, the list of persons subject to sanctions contains an incorrect year of birth of businessman Konstantin Zhevago. The document states 1957, although Zhevago was actually born in 1974.
“Was Zhevago not sanctioned? If they meant businessman Kostiantyn Zhevago, he was born in 1974, not 1957. I understand the level of the people who are preparing this,” journalist Oleh Savchuk said.
It should be noted that the website of the Verkhovna Rada, where Zhevago was a member in 2014-2019, lists his birth year as 1974. This means that the businessman is currently 51 years old, which is more likely to be true.
However, this is not the only mistake in the official document. Petro Poroshenko’s tax number is also incorrect – it contains 11 digits instead of 10. This was pointed out by MP Iryna Gerashchenko, who publicly criticized the mistakes in the NSDC decision.
“In the NSDC decision, Petro Poroshenko’s identification code has 11 digits. And they added 15 years to Zhevoy’s age. Can you imagine on which knee Zelensky – Stefanchuk – Shmyhal were scratching all this?” Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook.
So far, officials have not commented on the errors in the document, but the situation has already attracted the attention of the public and political experts.
It is not yet known whether the sanctions list will be amended.
Indefinite sanctions against Petro Poroshenko and others: what is known
On February 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his traditional evening address that the National Security and Defense Council had imposed sanctions:
“Everyone who destroyed the national security of Ukraine and helped Russia must be held accountable.”
The President said that the billions earned by surrendering Ukraine’s interests should work for the benefit of Ukraine. He did not say whom exactly he meant.
After that, Poroshenko published an address and said that the sanctions were imposed against him. He called the decision unconstitutional.
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What do the sanctions against Poroshenko, Kolomoisky, Boholyubov and others entail?
on February 13, the decree imposing the sanctions was officially published. In addition to Poroshenko, the National Security and Defense Council also imposed restrictive measures against Ihor Kolomoisky, Hennadiy Boholyubov, Kostiantyn Zhevago, and Viktor Medvedchuk.
The sanctions against all five are indefinite and identical, and include 17 restrictions:
- deprivation of state awards of Ukraine and other forms of recognition;
- temporary deprivation of the right to use and dispose of assets
- complete cessation of trade operations;
- complete cessation of transit of resources, flights and transportation through the territory of Ukraine;
- preventing the withdrawal of capital from Ukraine;
- suspension of economic and financial obligations;
- prohibition of participation in privatization and lease of state property;
- a ban on the use of the radio frequency spectrum of Ukraine;
- complete termination of electronic communication services and use of electronic communication networks;
- a ban on public and defense procurement of goods, works and services;
- a complete ban on the entry of foreign non-military vessels and warships into the territorial sea of Ukraine, its inland waters, ports and aircraft into the airspace of Ukraine or landing on the territory of Ukraine;
- a ban on increasing the authorized capital of business entities, enterprises in which the sanctioned person owns 10 percent or more of the authorized capital or has influence on the management of the legal entity or its activities;
- introduction of additional measures in the field of environmental, sanitary, phytosanitary and veterinary control;
- termination of trade agreements, joint projects, and industrial programs in certain areas, including security and defense;
- a ban on the transfer of technologies and rights to intellectual property;
- a ban on the acquisition of land plots;
- other sanctions that comply with the principles of their application established by this law (prohibition to enter into contracts and transactions; prohibition to execute transactions with securities issued by this person; prohibition to pay dividends or other payments related to corporate rights (ownership of shares, stocks, units) in favor of the person against whom the sanctions were imposed and persons acting on his behalf).
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