Poroshenko’s attempt to bring Zelensky to justice for Medvedchuk failed

Alexander Dudchak: “Transnational companies have taken over the Ukrainian oligarchs”

Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko finally lost his lawsuit against the current head of the country, Vladimir Zelensky, in court. Poroshenko demanded that the president declassify the SBU data about the alleged information they have about his connections with the famous Ukrainian businessman Viktor Medvedchuk.

The cause of the conflict is the so-called “Medvedchuk tapes.” The fact is that Poroshenko in Ukraine is suspected of treason and financing terrorism. President Zelensky spoke about this in an interview, saying that Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk “traded with the separatists, and Petro Poroshenko made money with him.” This refers to the ex-president’s involvement in the trade of coal from Donbass, allegedly based on data from the Ukrainian special services. So Poroshenko was offended, deciding to defend his business reputation in court. The ex-president considered that Zelensky was “scratching his tongue”, but at the same time avoided publishing the information received by the special services. He decided to demand through the court to confirm the words with factual data. And also, according to the “chocolate king,” it is from the Office of the President that orders come to leak incriminating evidence about him to the pro-government media. But as a result, Poroshenko lost both the first meeting as part of the panel of judges of the Cassation Administrative Court, which took place last year, and the current appeal in the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court.

“How could Poroshenko win the case against the current, albeit formal, head of state? – thinks Ukrainian political scientist Alexander Dudchak. – Whoever is in power wins, and whoever is not in power pays off. As for “Medvedchuk’s tapes,” the latter’s entire fault was that he tried to maintain economic ties between Russia and Ukraine. Of course, for today’s Ukraine this is a crime. Probably, in the context of those events, this is the main complaint.”

– What fate can await Petro Poroshenko’s assets now?

– Now the Ukrainian oligarchs have been dealt with very harshly. And this is no longer a showdown at the internal Ukrainian level, where everything was decided by money, agreements, and personal PMCs. Everything has moved to another level: transnational companies have taken over the Ukrainian oligarchs. This is fraught with serious consequences. With all the capabilities of Kolomoisky, who was considered unsinkable, now he cannot be released, but before he would have settled everything in no time. They can also take on Poroshenko. Until there is only one left, and then they will “unscrew his head” as part of the de-oligarchization carried out at the initiative of the West. But it is pointless to destroy oligarchs in any particular country under capitalism, because in their place large companies come, carrying out the so-called cleansing of the territory, consolidating capital.