Monaco Authorities Detain Then Release a Person in Their Probe of This Week's Explosion
Vadym Yermolaiev and two others were critically injured after a bomb was left at his residence, and authorities said the motive remains unclear.
- On Monday, a bomb exploded at the Monaco residence of Vadym Yermolaiev, critically injuring the 58-year-old Ukrainian-born oligarch, a woman, and a 13-year-old child in an attack that shocked the exclusive city-state.
- Yermolaiev renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019 for Cyprus residency, citing desire for "international protection" after building a real estate fortune in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro during the post-Soviet era.
- His son, Artur Yermolayev, was convicted of running a phone scam stealing 100 million euros from European victims between 2019 and 2022, resulting in extradition to Estonia and a five-year prison sentence.
- Yermolaiev's wife told Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne on Tuesday she was unhurt and away during the explosion, while the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry confirmed the three injured victims were members of a family of Ukrainian origin.
- Authorities have not determined a motive for the attack; while Kyiv sanctioned Yermolaiev in 2023 for business dealings in Russian-occupied Crimea, officials noted he currently has no obvious links to the war.
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A woman, about thirty years old, Ukrainian. Able to disguise herself and look like a man: this is the sketch of the person who put the bomb package in front of the door of the oligarch's house...
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The suspect of the attack on the trapped parcel, who caused three wounded - an oligarch and his family - on Monday night in Monaco, is said to be a woman, assure franceinfo and Le Figaro.
INFO THE FIGARO - According to our information, a woman about 30 years old residing in Germany allegedly dropped off the booby-trapped package in front of the home of Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Ermolaev.
The Monegasque authorities released a man suspected of having committed an assassination attempt against a Ukrainian businessman, Vadim Ermolaev, who survived but was hospitalized, reporting to Monako Daily News.
The investigative journalist: "The attack calls into question the whole system, even if the Ukrainian oligarch did not belong to the most visible circle. But it holds the unique combination of physical security, financial opacity, absence of taxes"
The shadow of Kiev's secret services is getting darker and more intense on the bomb that on 29 June has finally reduced to life in the Principality of Monaco the Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Ermolaev, the woman who was with him and wounded his 13-year-old son. In January, an entrepreneur named Serhiy Vahanyan gave two video interviews in which he denounced the existence of a vast system of corruption within the Sbu, the internal intelligence service…
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