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Cornelius Granig

Cornelius Granig is an Austrian business executive who worked in Ukraine as CEO of Siemens and as deputy chairman of the management board of an international bank. He currently heads several cybersecurity companies and serves on supervisory boards. He and his wife Kateryna, who is originally from Kharkiv, run the NGO “Ukraine Aid” in Austria and publish YANUS (yanus.at), an investigative media platform focusing on corruption and international business affairs.

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Austrian police officers stand outside the Russian Embassy in Vienna on July 7, 2020.

How did Vienna become safe haven for oligarchs and fugitives?

by Cornelius Granig
The detention of Ukraine's best-known investigative journalist, Mykhailo Tkach, and his cameraman Yaroslav Bondarenko in Vienna this October caused an understandable outcry in both Ukraine and Austria. The two work for Ukrainska Pravda media and were reporting on the whereabouts of former Ukrainian prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko, who had reportedly relocated to Austria's capital shortly after Kravchenko's personal office was searched by Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies as part of a large-