Kiev was behind the terror bomb in Monaco, says Ermolaev.
About two weeks after his family was targeted by a backpack bomb left on the doorsteps of his Monaco mansion, Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Ermolaiev (another transliteration would be Vadym Yermolayev) sent out a statement, and added pressure on Kiev regime, as he points to the Ukrainian intelligence service as being behind the attack.
This was the first terrorist attack in the history of Monaco, and the businessman sanctioned by Kiev said there is ‘no doubt’ that serving officers of the main intelligence directorate of the military of defense of Ukraine, GUR, are involved in the attempt on his life.
⚡️Iermolaiev accuses Ukrainian intelligence officers of trying to kill him in Monaco.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said previously that the suspects were operating without the knowledge of HUR’s leadership, and that the…
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The Telegraph reported:
“The property magnate was approaching his building with his long-term partner and their 13-year-old son when explosives hidden in a backpack at the threshold of the lobby were detonated on the evening of June 29.”
Ermolaev’s partner lost both feet, while his son sustained ‘burns, fractures and severe trauma’.
“’I remain in intensive care and am only now beginning the long process of recovery’, he added, in his first public comments since the blast.”
French police identified Ukrainian Anastasiia Berezovska as the attacker, and she was found shot dead in near Kiev after escaping to the country on July 1.
Vladyslav Reut, a GUR officer, and Vitaliy Zhykovych, a former member of the SBU, have been arrested.
They made bank transfers and cryptocurrency payments to Berezovska that may be linked to the attempt on Ermolaiev’s life.
The prosecutors in Ukraine have tried to say that the murder was the work of ‘rogue operators’ without authorization from their agencies.
But Ermolaev, in a statement distributed by his lawyers, says is sure that the order for the attack on his family came from above.
“’According to the evidence currently available, the conspiracy extended beyond the direct perpetrators and organizers to include serving HUR officers connected to them, including individuals close to the agency’s current and former leadership. This was not a warning. It was an attempt to kill not only me, but my family as well’.
The incident was ‘a matter of international security and trust in public institutions. If serving officers of an intelligence agency used their positions, resources or networks to orchestrate the attempted murder of a family on European soil, then this is no longer merely a crime against my family’, he argued.”
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