In Dijon (Bourgogne Franche-Comté), the investigating chamber said it had "issued a favorable opinion for the surrender" of the individual to the Ukrainian authorities, who had issued an arrest warrant against him last August.
A Ukrainian who was driving a great train in a Côte-d'Or castle before being arrested in early October, will be given to the authorities of his country of origin, said Monday the Chamber of Education of Dijon.
This Ukrainian, presented by Europol as a "high-ranking fugitive" , was arrested and detained on 5 October for money laundering and detained with three accomplices.
In a statement, the prosecutor's office in Kiev said it was Dmytro Malinovsky, 36, suspected in his country of having "seized more than 12 million euros belonging to a private company" in February and March 2015.
A castle, works by Dali, a collection of Royce ...
The man, who acted as an intermediary between this company and the Odessa chemical plant, among the largest in the chemical sector in Ukraine, allegedly misappropriated these funds paid as pre-payment for fertilizers to be manufactured by the factory.
It was the purchase of the Château de La Rochepot, for three million euros by a Luxembourg company, whose final beneficiary was the Ukrainian citizen suspected of large-scale corruption in his country, who had attracted the attention of the gendarmes and leads to his arrest.
The investigators had made seizures for 4.6 million euros, including a collectible Rolls Royce Phantom, three works by Salvador Dali or many jewels.