In 2016, she escaped from Ukraine and was arrested at the Podgorica airport by the Interpol's arrest warrant. She surrendered to the Ukrainian authorities after months of negotiations, and it is suspected she was hiding in Montenegro for a while using a fake document.
Musijenko is suspected of participating in one of the biggest affairs in the recent history of Ukraine, the so-called "Gas Scheme". She is charged that along with the National Delegate Oleksandr Onišćenko organized a scheme based on which they earned millions.
As the Ukrainian media writes, criminal activities have been carried out primarily in order to gain profits from the sale of natural gas, in order to later turn these non-cash assets obtained from this sale into uncontrolled cash, through the execution of non-existent jobs that relate to the provision of intermediary and agency services.
It is suspected that members of this organized criminal group maintained fictitious auctions during 2014 and 2015 and thus provided the sale of the natural gas, while the real value of the natural gas sold in large quantities was decreased on purpose, as stated by the Ukrainian Justice. They have turned in, as suspected, from 2013 to 2016, the money earned in this way through a set of controlled fictitious business entities into cash which they shared between themselves.
Ukrainian Justice and Interfax have announced that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau NABO was in constant communication with the Montenegrin police and the Ministry of Justice in order to extradite her. Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Andri Lisenko said that the arrest and extradition proceedings took place thanks to the joint efforts of PGO and NABU.
"In September 2018, the Montenegrin Ministry of Justice decided to allow extradition, which was done on October 18th this year. Musijenko was handed over to the Ukrainian police officers, who then escorted her to NABU detectives,"Lisenk o said.
Text by Dan, on October 23rd, 2018, read more at CdM
