Dec. 7, 2025, 1:32 p.m.
(Viktor Hushan and his estates. COLLAGE: Schemes)
Ukraine has frozen part of the assets of the main oligarch of Transnistria, Viktor Gushan, who is a co-founder of the Sheriff holding and owns an estate and land in Odesa region.
This was reported by Ukrayinska Pravda with reference to an investigation by Zona de Securitate.
The decision to freeze Gushan's assets was made after the prosecutor's office found that companies associated with him supplied goods and services to the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation.
The journalists cite a Ukrainian court ruling that found that Gushan's close associates were linked to Russian military production, in particular through the Moldavizolit plant in unrecognized Transnistria.
Ukrainian investigators claim that during the war, this plant played an important role in the supply chain of materials for the Russian defense industry.
Victor Gushan is a Transnistrian oligarch, owner and president of the Sheriff holding. The company owns a significant part of the economy of the temporarily occupied part of Moldova, which gives Gushan influence over the political life of the TMR. In addition to his Moldovan citizenship, he holds passports of Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia.
The investigation also reveals the key people involved in this mechanism, the way intermediary companies were created in the Russian Federation, and the direct links that likely lead to the Sheriff holding.
In 2020, journalists of the Schemes program found out that the businessman owns a mansion and land in Vilkovo in the south of Odesa region, a cottage in Sauvignon near Odesa, and land in Kyiv region. In Vilkovo, he even rents an island where Khrushchev's dachas were located in Soviet times. Viktor Gushan has previously listed the address in Vilkovo as the ultimate beneficiary of Intertelecom. In 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine conducted searches at the company as part of a proceeding opened under three articles, including "high treason."
Кирило Бойко