Nine 9 millimeter caliber shots parabellum to kill Andrii Portnov | News from Madrid
Nine shooting at close range. Nine shots unleashed by a single attacker with a single weapon. One of them grace, with the victim already on the ground. Topped in the neck. The aggressor wanted to make sure he died. A murder in full daylight, on public roads, in seconds: « Five seconds for the first eight bullets and one more to finalize it lying on the sidewalk, » the National Police experts estimate. Nine caps on the ground that reveal the ammunition used by the hitman that last Wednesday Ukrainian lawyer Andrii Portnov at the door of the school was riddled From his daughters in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. « Nine millimeters parabellum, » police sources conclude.
The ammunition, in the eyes of the National Police specialists, reveals that the murderer used “a western weapon (it is the most frequent European caliber: army, police, etc …), powerful and modern, with a wide capacity of charger (the oldest only housed eight cartridges and those of the police can house 15 projectiles),” they explain. « Possibly, when the shooting with a single weapon, it did it at a very short distance and the number of shots indicates the interest in ensuring the deadly result, » they add. And they clarify: « There are already more modern Russian guns such as Yarygin or Gryazev, which have a high charger capacity and are manufactured in 9 parabellum, but they have not reached the West. They are only used by security bodies and Russian special bodies, so that the right thing is to think that this is western manufacture. »
Andrii Portnov, advisor to the previous president, Viktor Yanukovychantieuropeist and proruse The Russian invasionin June 2022. It was installed in an urbanization of the luxury residential of La Moraleja with his children and his wife, Anastasia V thingsoeva, who was also linked to the previous Ukrainian government. The inquiry in their life habits that the National Police investigators are now carrying out and who, previously carried out their murderers, has led the agents to conclude that, « sometimes, he took people of his trust with him, to give him security service. » However, it did not have professional bodyguards, as evidenced last Wednesday.
Among his routines was to take his daughters to his daughters to the American school, a center where children of diplomats, players and wealthy people, in general. His attackers, after analyzing their movements, had to consider that this was the moment of greatest vulnerability for their objective and the place where the flight could be better guaranteed. The police now seek three individuals, the author of the shots and two more than, after committing their crime, they camouflaged between the groves of the Casa de Campo. Researchers believe that They did not fled in motorcycle, as initially pointed out, or in subway, but they did it in a vehicle that they had planned for this purpose.
The fact that Portnov did not have a fixed bodyguard service, but that he promptly use people to protect themselves, indicates that he felt quite safe in the capital, where apparently few people knew he resided. However, last year he made a mistake. He wanted to put a mansion in the name of his four children, valued at 2.5 million euros, which owned kyiv’s outskirts, in the population of Kozyn. A beautiful house with a large farm, on the shores of the Dnieper river. To do this, he went to a notary of Madrid who subsequently sent the documentation to Ukraine where the matter was formalized through his lawyer, Marina Parinova, according to media published Radiofreeeurope. That financial operation betrayed its location.
Throughout his life, Portnov has left a good number of enemies behind him. With his work as an advisor with Yanukovych, enmity was won with the supporters of a European Ukraine. He was even accused of promoting repression in the serious protests of November 2013, known as Euromaidan (« Europlaza », in Ukraine)when tens of thousands of protesters occupied kyiv’s Plaza de la Independencia against the president’s decision to suspend the agreements with Europe against what had been decided mostly in Parliament. More than one hundred people died in altercations.
But Portnov, who was responsible for the Judiciary in the Yanukovych government, was unscathed from all the judicial processes that opened against him. He even judicially persecuted journalists who thought they had defamed him. He ended up having residence in Moscow and linked to Russian businessmen and politicians, while prosperating his businesses and raised a real estate empire. Accused of « high betrayal » by his country and sanctioned for large -scale corruption and human rights violations in the US, Portnov believed to find his refuge and that of his family in Madrid. His apparent sense of security contrasts with the circumstances of his murder, which has led some to think about the possibility that the shots would come from « friendly fire. »
A crime starring hitmen reminiscent of other similar murders that have been registered in Spain in the framework of the tension escalation and the war between Ukraine and Russia. Between November and December 2022, six pump cards were sent to objectives, including the President of the Government, the Ukraine Embassy in Madrid, Government Offices, a European Satellite Company and the US Embassy 75 -year -old retired Spanishwhose Network searches suggested sympathy by Russiahe was convicted of these facts.
In April 2022, The Russian Magnate Serguéi Protosenya, 55, was found dead in apparent suicide with his wife and daughter in Lloret de Mar (Girona) where a few days of vacation passed, since it resided in France. And, in February 2024, the body of the Russian pilot Maxim Kuzmínov was found with six shots in the body in Vila Joiosa (Alicante). Had supposedly defected with his combat helicopter for surrender to the Ukrainian army.
