Fugitive wanted over Monaco bombing found shot dead in Ukraine: reports

The fugitive being hunted for the Monaco bombing that injured a sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch and the woman he was with has been found shot dead in Ukraine, according to reports.

Anastasiia Berezovska’s body was found near Kyiv at around 11 p.m. on Monday night – and two suspects have been detained, sources told the Ukrainian outlet Pravda.

A current officer of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and an ex-law enforcement officer have been detained, according to local reports.

Berezovska, 39, was accused of targeting Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev, 58, when she detonated a makeshift bomb that went off at the entrance of his building in Monaco last Monday.

She was named by the authorities Friday and an Interpol “red notice” was out for her arrest on charges of attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy.

Cops initially believed a man, who was seen wearing a bucket hat, had carried out the attack.

“This person is likely to disguise themselves in such a way as to appear as a man,” according to a police memo seen by BFM.

But she planted an explosive-packed backpack outside Yermolaiev’s apartment and detonating it with a remote control.

Berezovska used a car she had rented in Germany to flee the area. She fled to the French-Italian border before making her way to Switzerland, according to the Italian news agency ANSA, before returning to Germany.

Yermolaiev was injured along was the woman he was with – Anna Nasobina — who lost her legs in the attack. Nasobina, 46, was with her 13-year-old son when the bomb detonated.  

Yermolaiev is a multi-millionaire living in Monaco who had sanctions slapped on him by Kyiv beginning in December 2023 — reportedly stemming from his alcohol business activity in Russian-occupied Crimea, France24 reported.

He was among the wealthiest tycoons in Ukraine who led in the fields of commercial real estate, manufacturing and agriculture.

He told Forbes Ukraine that he renounced his Ukrainian citizenship and became a citizen of Cyprus in 2017. 

Yermolaiev’s eldest son, Artur, was arrested in Cyprus last year and accused of organizing large-scale fraudulent call centers targeting Europeans, according to the Pravda newspaper.