An American is accused of trying to kill a Ukrainian minister: the versions of the prosecutor's office and lawyers are very different - ForumDaily
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The American is accused of trying to kill the Ukrainian minister: the versions of the prosecutor's office and lawyers are very different

American Kurt Grossans hired a collector to beat the debt from Ukrainian minister Roman Leshchenko, and then decided to kill both - this is the version of the police. The defense has a different version. Babel.

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On November 18, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky and the head of the National Police Igor Klimenko announced that an attempt was being made on the Minister of Agrarian Policy Roman Leshchenko.

In 2018, Leshchenko worked for about six months as a director of the agricultural company Grossans.

In 2020, its owner, US citizen Kurt Grossans, publicly stated that Leshchenko had stolen $ 1 million from him.

To get him to pay back the debt, Grossance hired a collector for $ 150.

He took the money and disappeared.

After that, the businessman, through his assistant Elena Bogach, ordered the murder of the fugitive collector.

The “killer” turned out to be a man who collaborated with the police; they learned about the plans of the American businessman in advance.

“Killer” imitated the kidnapping and murder of a collector.

After that, Grossans and Bogach ordered the murder of Minister Leshchenko to the same killer.

On November 17, 2021, the three of them discussed all the details of the crime in a restaurant, the “killer” received a $20 thousand deposit.

After that, Grossans was supposed to leave the country, but on November 18 he was detained by law enforcement officers.

The businessman and his assistant were sent into custody for two months - they are suspected of four counts.

Acquaintance and courts

Grossans's lawyer Taras Bespaly says that Grossans came to Ukraine in 2017 to engage in agribusiness and make money.

He invested several million dollars, bought a harvester and started growing something.

Ukrainian Olena Bogach worked as his assistant and translator.

“In 2018, Roman Leshchenko, whom no one knew about then, got a job with Kurt as director of Grossans LLC. Literally a few days later he began to withdraw money from the company,” says the lawyer.

Bespaly showed three contracts between the companies Grossans and Progress. .

They were signed on March 22, August 6 and September 6, 2020.

According to the documents, the latter received 6,6 million hryvnia in repayable financial assistance from Grossans.

Bespalyi says that Progress promised to return this money within a year from the date of signing the contracts.

But she returned only part of the amount - 3,3 million hryvnia.

Leshchenko signed the agreements on behalf of Grossans.

The lawyer says that Leshchenko was the founder of the Progress company from 2016 to the summer of 2020, and that he was subsequently replaced by his wife Alla Leshchenko.

To get his company back money, Grossans went to court.

The total amount of the claim, including damage, was about UAH 27 million.

According to Leshchenko, everything was different.

He and Grossans agreed in advance to use Progress in business - pay salaries through it, buy fuel.

The farmer received notifications about each transaction on Progress accounts.

Bespalyy does not comment on the minister's version - he has not yet discussed this issue with the client.

After the dismissal of Leshchenko

Leshchenko worked at Grossans for only six months, until September 2018.

Kurt went to court several times with claims against Progress and lost - the deadline for returning the money did not expire at that time.

In the civil court he was denied, because the court made a request at the place of registration of Leshchenko, and there they replied that such a citizen was not registered at this address. On this basis, the court refused to consider the case.

After that, in order to recover the money, Grossans turned to an American court.

Search for helpers

“In addition to the courts, Kurt decided to act independently,” says the lawyer.

He asked his assistant Elena Bogach to find a person who would collect information about Leshchenko.

She was required to strengthen the negotiating position and convince him to return the money.

“There was no talk of murder - Kurt understood that it was illegal,” explains Grossans’ lawyer Taras Bespaly.

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“Elena found Dmitry Kovalenko. According to Kurt, she came and said that there was such a person, but he asked $150 thousand for his services. He needed money to search for information and pay those who would help him. To pay off, Kurt even had to take out a loan. Negotiations with Kovalenko were conducted by Bogach, she gave him money from Kurt. Having received the entire amount, Kovalenko left for another city, changed his phone number and disappeared. He never collected any information,” says Bespaly.

“The police believe that Kovalenko played a different role in this story. They call him a “collector” and say that he was supposed to extract a debt from Leshchenko,” he adds.

When Kovalenko disappeared, Kurt told Elena that something needed to be done about this situation.

Elena contacted Vladimir Chernenko.

This is probably not his real name. In the operational video, he speaks with a Caucasian accent.
He said that he could find the debtor and ask him any questions.

During the interrogation, he told how Elena got to Chernenko.

Bespaly further refers to his materials: “Vladimir said in his testimony that he met a woman named Elena at the Atlant Gym sports club. Elena briefly told him the story about Leshchenko, who embezzled about a million dollars, and about Dmitry Kovalenko, who took $150 thousand to “resolve the issue,” but did not complete the work and disappeared.”

Then Chernenko says this (Bespaly reads out a document from the case file): “After this, in August 21, I don’t remember the exact date, Elena, on the instructions of Kurt, in a general conversation offered me to organize the murder of Kovalenko for a reward. The reality of her intentions confirmed and convinced that she and Kurt were solvent. A few days later, she once again confirmed Kurt's intention to kill Kovalenko. And if I confirm the possibility of carrying out such orders, they will let me carry out the murder of Leshchenko... Also during the conversation, Elena said that Leshchenko occupies a high position, and therefore they will be ready to pay a large sum for the murder. As payment, Elena promised $20 thousand for the murder of Kovalenko, of which $10 thousand is an advance payment, and the remaining $10 thousand after the murder.”

Bespaly comments: “That is, Elena meets someone unknown at a sports club and tells that she intends to order the murder of the first person she meets. This raises many questions."

Crime provocation

“I want to prove that this was a real provocation of a crime. In the materials of the NSRD we see that Chernenko repeatedly provoked Elena and Kurt to violence. For example, he suggested, “If you want, we will cut off his (Kovalenko’s) fingers or hands,” etc. They answered that they were not interested in this, they needed money. When Chernenko discovered Dmitry Kovalenko, Elena informed Kurt about it. They left to talk to him,” says the lawyer.

The police have a video showing Chernenko, Grossans, Bogach, several masked men in the same room, and Kovalenko lying on the floor with his hands tied.

Chernenko asks Grossans if he wants to say anything. He says “Goodbye and good luck” to Kovalenko in English and leaves. This is where the video ends.

“Kurt did not expect to see Kovalenko tied up and was shocked. He asked him about the money. He replied that there was no money - he spent it. After that, Kurt told him: “Good bye and good luck.” There were no requests to kill him,” says the lawyer.

After that, a photo of Kovalenko’s “corpse” was sent to Grossans’ phone.

“When Kurt was sent the photo, he did not comment on it. In the NSRD materials that we have, we could not see the reaction and do not even know whether those photos and videos were shown to Grossansu and Bogach. But Kurt realized that he had been set up,” says Bespaly.

The lawyer claims that cooperation with Chernenko was continued by Grossans' assistant, not he.

“Kurt said that he needed information about Leshchenko. He didn’t talk about threats against Leshchenko,” says Bespaly.

The lawyer explains that he did not see information in the case materials about the second part of the sum for the murder of Kovalenko.

After the death of Kovalenko, Grossans, Bogach and Chernenko began to discuss Leshchenko.

According to Bespaly, the killer Chernenko had to carry out the work that was first entrusted to Kovalenko - to collect information about Leshchenko.

The lawyer says that Chernenko continued his provocations, that he told Elena and Kurt that he works with serious people and can do anything, he said that he does not just return money, but can do work “in a complex.”

“He explained this by saying that Leshchenko is a minister, and if you get money out of him, he will identify everyone and then he will “catch up.” We don’t see yet what Elena translated from this to Kurt,” says Bespaly.

All NSRD materials clearly describe what Chernenko and Elena say.

And where Grossans is, it says: “speaks English.”

“To understand more deeply, you need to get all the materials with the original recordings, then it will be possible to analyze in more detail. We will file such a petition on appeal,” says the lawyer.

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“If we go back to Monastyrsky’s briefing, there is a video: Grossans, Bogach and Chernenko are sitting in a restaurant, and Chernenko asks Grosans: “Do you want me to kill him (Leshchenko)?” Kurt replies: “It’s important to me to get the money back, if anything happens to him, I don’t care.” This can hardly be interpreted as ordering the murder of a person,” says Bespaly.

The lawyer says that Grossans decided to leave the country because Chernenko told him directly that at the moment when he would take the money, it would be better for Kurt to leave Ukraine.

“Let's think logically. Leshchenko, according to Kurt, owes him about a million dollars. If Kurt ordered Leshchenko's murder, who would return the money? In addition, Kurt has already filed a lawsuit in the States and is about to be considered. The likelihood that he wins in the States is very high. Why would he kill Leshchenko if there are legal ways to get the money back? This criminal case may interfere with the American court,” the lawyer said.

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