The Spanish authorities see the more likely scenario behind the murder of the 51 -year -old, powerful Filorer, Ukrainian former politician Antrii Portnov yesterday in Madrid in Madrid.

They point out, however, that the investigation has not yet ruled out the “political motives” behind the crime.

Source of the Spanish police said that, despite his “personality”, a murder associated with organized crime is currently the most likely scenario.

Adrii Portnov fell dead yesterday, having received bullets on his back and head outside the American college in Madrid where he had just left his children in the luxurious suburb of Pothuelo de Alagon.

Since the start of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Kiev has taken responsibility (or has been responsible for him) for a series of murders in Russia or the occupied Ukrainian territories against politicians, military and persons who offered an ideological support to the war.

But no murder has been done outside of this zone.

However, many murders committed abroad have been linked to Russia, such as the murder of the Russian pilot who self -sufficient with his helicopter in Ukraine and assassinated in February 2024 in Spain.

Who was Portnov

According to Ukrainian media, Portnov succeeded in leaving Ukraine in June 2022, after the start of the Russian invasion and despite the almost universal ban on leaving the land of men aged 18-60.

Portnov served as Ukrainian presidential deputy director under the pro -President Viktor Yanukovychwhich was expelled during the Ukrainian pro -European uprising of 2014 named Euromaidan.

Andrii Portnov was done target international sanctions in 2014 For his role in the attempts of Yanukovych’s regime for violent repression of Ukrainian democratic uprising.
Then, along with Yanukovych, who fled to Russia, Portnov managed to escapes to Austria.

In 2021, the US Department of Foreign Audit Service (OFAC) imposed new sanctions on Antrii Portnov for his activities during his activities Return to Ukraine in 2019just before taking over the duties of Volodimir Zelenski as president of the country.

According to Ofac, Portnov cultivated Extensive relationships with the judicial system and the mechanism of enforcement of Ukraine law through bribery. Portnov was accused of using his influence to buy access to the judicial system, to influence judicial decisions in Ukraine courts, the formation of legislation, to ensure that officials’ loyalists at the highest levels of the judiciary undermine the reforms.

In 2019, Portnov collaborated with a high -ranking government official to influence Ukraine’s supreme judicial institutions, including the Constitutional Court, and participated in an attempt to influence the Attorney General of Ukraine.

Ofac had then imposed sanctions on “Andriy Portnov Fund”.