From Courchevel to Romanian prison: extradition of the "Monaco battalion" hero Osherovskyi is under threat due to the Pechersk court’s decision

From Courchevel to Romanian prison: extradition of the "Monaco battalion" hero Osherovskyi is under threat due to the Pechersk court’s decision

The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv canceled the resolution on suspending the pre-trial investigation regarding 42-year-old native of Donetsk region Serhiy Osherovskyi, nicknamed "Serhiy Israeli", who is accused of extorting $1 million as part of an ethnic criminal group (Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The relevant verdict was issued on January 22, 2026, by judge Iryna Lytvynova, writes  Detective-Info.

From its text, it follows: the judge satisfied the complaint of Osherovskyi’s lawyer citing procedural violations committed shortly before declaring the dignitary wanted. Allegedly, the pre-trial investigation body knew for certain that Serhiy Leonidovych had left the country at the beginning of 2022 to treat his father, so he should have been summoned for service of suspicion not through the standard procedure, but on the basis of sending a request (instruction) for international legal assistance.

From the court materials, it is known: the decision to cancel the resolution on suspending the investigation regarding "Serhiy Israeli", which de facto opens the way for further closure of the proceedings due to the expiration of pre-trial investigation terms, the prosecution tried to appeal first in the appellate, and later - in the cassation instances. During the consideration of the case in the Supreme Court prosecutors pointed out: a year ago, the same judge Lytvynova considered a similar complaint from Osherovskyi’s defense and made a diametrically opposite decision - denied the lawyers’ motion.

We note that the change of accents in the "Pechersk practice" of interpreting the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine towards the authoritative in certain circles "Serhiy Israeli" occurred against the backdrop of the detention and arrest of the native of Donetchina on the territory of Romania. As previously reported on the pages of Detective-Info, at the beginning of November 2025, Osherovskyi, who had been declared internationally wanted, was "packed" in Transylvania post factum his application for asylum to the General Inspectorate for Immigration in Brasov.

In Dracula’s homeland, the local Themis applied temporary arrest in the form of detention to Serhiy Leonidovych. At the beginning of February, the corresponding "preventive measure" was extended for another 30 days, and on March 10, the Brasov city court satisfied the request for his extradition to Ukraine.

We recall that "Serhiy Israeli" came into the focus of domestic law enforcers shortly before the start of the full-scale military invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine. In January 2022, the security forces reported the exposure of members of a transnational organized criminal group extortionists, operating in Kyiv under the patronage of Chechen thief-in-law Khusein Akhmadov, nicknamed "Khusein the Blind". According to the case narrative, at least since November 2021, the extortionists "racked" a certain citizen Nevedomsky, demanding from him funds in the amount of $1 million or equivalent to 15 Bitcoin.

(Serhiy Osherovskyi in the company of Khusein Akhmadov)

As previously noted in Detective-Info publications, official claims of involvement in the specified crime were made against Ukrainian and Israeli citizen Serhiy Osherovskyi, Georgian Zurab Kvitaishvili, and Belarusian Maksym Silnikov. "Serhiy Israeli" was wanted through Interpol channels, however, this circumstance did not prevent him from becoming a hero of epic entertainments of the so-called "Monaco battalion" in Courchevel and officially obtaining refugee status in France. During his detention in Romania in the fall of last year, Osherovskyi emphasized his refusal to voluntarily return to Ukraine. And he reported that he had previously experienced a similar "extradition saga" in Hungary, where his extradition to official Kyiv was allegedly ultimately denied.