{"id":5642,"date":"2020-07-16T12:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T12:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2020-07-16T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T12:39:50","slug":"king-of-the-castle-ukrainian-fugitive-who-faked-death-found-enjoying-lavish-life-in-burgundy-chateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5642","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;King of the Castle&#8217; Ukrainian fugitive who faked death found enjoying &#8216;lavish&#8217; life in Burgundy chateau\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives dubbed him \u201cthe King of the Castle\u201d after\u00a0he used forged death certificates to evade capture while living the high life in a Burgundy chateau surrounded by works of Salvador Dali and a vintage Rolls Royce Phantom.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Europol announced it had caught a \u201chigh-profile\u201d Ukrainian fugitive on October 5 who had been enjoying a \u201clavish lifestyle in France\u201d and is \u201cthought to be behind a complex case of international fraud and money laundering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Three other men were arrested in the swoop &#8211; two Ukrainians and a Moldavian. Two Ukrainian women have been placed under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Gendarmes also seized \u20ac4.6 million (\u00a34m) of jewels and property, including a medieval castle identified by the Telegraph as Chateau de la Rochepot in the wine growing C\u00f4te d\u2019Or &#8211; which until recently belonged to heirs of former French president Sadi Carnot.<\/p>\n<p>In the haul were three unnamed Dali works.<\/p>\n<p>Locals said the vintage Rolls was seen towed from the castle in recent days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While not named by the European Union\u2019s law enforcement agency, one Ukraine-based reporter in Radio Free Europe said the suspect was Dmytro Malinovskiy, an Odessa-based businessman who has been wanted by police in Ukraine since 2015 in connection with a major fraud and forgery case involving defense ministry property in the Black Sea port city.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French @Gendarmerie arrest Ukrainian \u2018King of the Castle\u2019 and seized over EUR 4 million, with Europol&#39;s support. The suspect is thought to be behind a complex case of international #fraud and #moneylaundering. <br \/>Read more: https:\/\/t.co\/esIVkLwzDN pic.twitter.com\/vC6LHzO3g3<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Europol (@Europol) October 16, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Europol said that the French authorities launched in January an investigation into alleged suspicious transactions surrounding the purchase of a \u201c\u20ac3 million castle in the Burgundy region by a Luxembourg-based company\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was later established that the ultimate owner was wanted in Ukraine for alleged large-scale corruption but had managed to evade justice by producing &quot;forged death certificates,&quot; Europol said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hague-based agency said it had coordinated with French, Ukrainian and Luxembourg authorities to establish that the suspect \u201cwas not only alive\u00a0but was enjoying a lavish lifestyle in France\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Ukraine have not commented publicly on the Europol statement.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nThe Chateau de la Rochepot is seen above La Rochepot, a winemaking village near BeauneCredit:<br \/>\n\u00a0Ian Shaw\u00a0\/Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Contacted by the Telegraph, Jer\u00f4me Billard, mayor of La Rochepot, a winemaking village near Beaune, confirmed that the arrests had taken place.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had met Mr Malinovskiy who had told him he was \u201cin charge of accounts\u201d but was not aware he was the owner of the chateau.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw one or two people I presumed were middle-men for the investment company that owned the chateau,\u201d he said, adding that he had no idea about the Dali paintings.<\/p>\n<p>He said until their arrest, he had no complaints about those who ran the chateau, a 12th-century feudal castle of neo-Gothic-Burgundian style, rebuilt in the 15th century and completely restored and covered with glazed burgundy tiles in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nLa Rochepot castle welcomes 25,000 visitors per yearCredit:<br \/>\nTelegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With its drawbridge and moat, the property was the scene of a mock medieval battle last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was positive was they had kept the visits going and ran a shop and bar-bar-restaurant,\u201d said the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing we want is for it to be bought by private owners who shut it to the public. It\u2019s vital for tourism and economic development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graft remains a key political issue for Ukraine despite a 2014 revolution that ousted then-President Viktor Yanukovych and exposed massive government corruption and bribery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.storeafl.com\/west-coast-eagles-guernsey.html' title='West Coast Eagles Guernsey'>West Coast Eagles Guernsey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund made the creation of an anti-corruption court a condition of unlocking its $17.5 billion (\u00a315.4bn) bailout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, non-residents based in Ukraine were among customers implicated in about \u20ac200 billion that flowed through the Estonian unit of Danske Bank A\/S between 2007 and 2015, much of which the lender regarded as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine was 130th with Sierra Leone and Myanmar in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, lower than any European country except Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives dubbed him \u201cthe King of the Castle\u201d after\u00a0he used forged death certificates to evade capture while living the high life in a Burgundy chateau surrounded by works of Salvador Dali and a vintage Rolls Royce Phantom. 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