Rogozin asked the Investigative Committee to check Fridman for funding of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The former HEAD of Roscosmos, senator from the Zaporozhye region Dmitry Rogozin appealed to the Investigative Committee with a request to check reports about the financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) by businessman Mikhail Fridman. The senator told RIA Novosti about this.

“I asked the Investigative Committee to check reports about Fridman’s financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since this falls under a strict article of the Criminal Code,” Rogozin said. He clarified that he sent a request not only to the Investigative Committee, but also to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the FSB.

On October 9, a source close to Friedman told RBC that the businessman left the UK and moved to Israel, clarifying that he was currently in Moscow. Information about this was confirmed by Alfa Group, adding that Friedman plans to “visit RUSSIA regularly.”

After this, Friedman explained that the decision to move from the UK was due to the “inability to live under sanctions.” According to him, he plans to leave for Israel when “everything settles down” and the country’s war with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas ends.

On September 5, the Security Service of Ukraine accused the businessman of financing military actions in Ukraine . According to the service, since the beginning of the full-scale conflict, Friedman has invested about 2 billion rubles. to Russian defense factories.

The entrepreneur was informed in absentia of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (financing of actions committed with the aim of violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order). In Ukraine, he faces up to eight years in prison with confiscation of property.