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Official sources confirm that the victim was shot several times as he was getting into a vehicle. Several people shot him in the back and head and then fled the scene into a wooded area,
the ministry’s press service said As of 2019, Portnov took steps to control the Ukrainian judiciary, influence associated legislation, sought to place loyal officials in senior judiciary positions, and purchase court decisions,
I was in shock, like how is it possible that this happens here?”
I heard five bullets and then came here to see what happened,
I didn’t know there were Ukrainian politicians there,
Several persons shot him in the back and the head and then fled towards a forested area,
said a source at Spain’s interior ministry We could only confirm the death of this person,
Widely known as a court fixer, Portnov was credibly accused of using his influence to buy access and decisions in Ukraine’s courts and undermining reform efforts
In 2021, he was sanctioned by the US for corruption, with the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) writing of him
