Andrij Portnow: Well -known Ukrainian politician shot in Madrid

It is like a execution: Andrij Portnow, several of them in the head. He was a well -known Ukrainian lawyer and politician, was considered one of the most important advisors of the then Russia -friendly Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.

The crime scene: not far from the American school of Madrid. According to media reports, the 51-year-old had previously brought his children to the private school for class, which is located in the wealthy community of Pozuelo de Alarcón northwest of Madrid.

Pictures showed the body next to his car. Media in Kyiv confirmed the crime with reference to sources in Ukrainian security circles. The previously unknown perpetrators then fled into a forest, it said.

Between 2010 and 2014, the Eastern Ukrainer Portnow worked as a consultant and vice -chief of the Presidential Office under Viktor Yanukovich and was largely responsible for the conversion of the Ukraine court system. Portnow was previously a lawyer and parliamentary member of the party of ex-Minister President Julia Timoschenko.

After the fall of Yanukovych in 2014, he initially lived in exile in Russian and returned to Ukraine in 2019 shortly before Wolodymyr Selenskyj’s election victory.

After the Russian invasion of 2022, the multiple family man left the country again – this time west. In the past few months, he had attracted attention in Ukraine through successful lawsuits against media, which had described him as “pro -Russian”.

The United States imposed sanctions against it in 2021 due to allegations of corruption. EU sanctions had to be lifted again after successful lawsuits.