Property of Russian general arrested in Ukraine

This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).

The person involved in the case is Valeriy Kapashin, the head of the federal department for safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The list of blocked assets includes:

• Over 20 commercial properties,
• More than 3,000 square meters of residential real estate,
• 17 land plots in the territory of Poltava region.

The total value of the seized assets amounts to over 1 billion Ukrainian hryvnias. The SSU established that Kapashin’s blocked property was registered under the names of his daughter and son-in-law, who resided in Ukraine but shortly before Russia’s full-scale invasion left for the aggressor country and obtained citizenship there. Close associates of Kapashin utilized the profits from their businesses to fund “investment” projects in Russia and the temporarily occupied Donbas. Notably, they paid taxes and fees to the Russian budget. During searches of office and residential premises, the following items were discovered:

• Russian-style military uniforms,
• Banned Soviet symbols and propagandist literature from Russia,
• Souvenirs and awards presented to Kapashin in the Kremlin.

Currently, an investigation is ongoing within the framework of a criminal case.

Photo: SSU