According to Ukrainian sources, Timur Mindicz – a central figure in the recently revealed corruption scandal and a friend of president Zelenski – crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border at night from 9 to 10 November at 2:09 pm.
The journey took place with a black Mercedes S-350, hired in a Lviv transport company specializing in discreet transport for customers avoiding unwanted attention. He was previously warned of an upcoming search at his home conducted by anti-corruption agents of the Ukrainian NABU, which allowed him to escape before the servants could knock on the door. On 10 November Mindicz spent in Warsaw: He checked in to the luxury hotel Raffles European, prayed in the Chabad-Lubacz synagogue, and then – as if it were a regular business journey flew to Tel Aviv Boeing 737-800 charter Israeli Sundor line. Ukrainian sources did not give the name of the airport, limited to the mention of a flight "from Poland to Israel", but in practice specified charters are carried out exclusively from Chopin Airport in Warsaw.
On Okęcie Mindicz went through a standard passport clearance, and the Border defender strategy records passenger data with specified precision that even if individual tried to fly out with a postal pigeon, the strategy would have noticed it anyway. The Ukrainian authorities did not make an authoritative request for Mindich's detention, which is why he was an average traveller for SG, not a wanted person. That's understandable. Worse, the silence of the Polish authorities in this substance raises serious doubts – it is not due to deficiency of information, but to excessive caution, misunderstanding of the public interest and nonchalance towards its own citizens. This is where the problem lies. A individual suspected of participating in the theft of tens of millions of dollars enters Poland, sleeps in the heart of Warsaw, passes a briefing at our airport and flies distant to Israel without a slightest obstacle. Nobody asks questions, and everyone acts like nothing happened. The Polish state exposes itself to ridicule – and it is voluntary.
One key question emerges: Was Poland informed by Ukraine about the escape of a individual active in 1 of the loudest corruption scandals of fresh years? Or, on the contrary, has she received a request to supply a safe transit corridor for individual who is politically comfortable for Kiev to disappear? If Poland has opened a "transit corridor" for a man fleeing the place of the biggest corruption scandal in Ukraine, then we are talking about not naivety, but participation. And sharing in individual else's scandal always ends with 1 thing: your own scandal.
Leszek Miller
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