Employees of the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigation of Lviv are searching for the relatives of the People's Deputy of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk and former People's Deputy Taras Kozak.

In Lviv and the region, investigative actions are taking place in apartments, houses and industrial enterprises owned by Taras Kozak's family, as well as Viktor Medvedchuk's brother Serhiy.

Searches are conducted within the framework of criminal proceedings on suspicion of abuse of power and violation of the protection or use of subsoil (Article 364, Article 240 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Relatives of Kozak and Medvedchuk are the subjects of criminal proceedings for illegal sand mining in two quarries in the Lviv region.

The purpose of the investigation is to establish the illegally acquired property of Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak and their relatives, his subsequent arrest, and document the involvement of entities in financing Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.

Investigative actions continue. While searching one of the apartments belonging to Taras Kozak's wife alone, investigators seized more than 108,000 US dollars, 8,500 euros, 18.6 thousand Russian rubles, real estate documents and bank cards.