Ukraine’s olympic participation still up in the air

It emerged this week that de facto Ukrainian show jumping team owner Oleksandr Onyshchenko has sold 44 of his horses to Germany’s Paul Schockemohle.

It comes after the Ukrainian parliament lifted the immunity granted to Onyshchenko as an MP, opening the way for his arrest in relation to a fraud regarding the sale of gas. He is charged with misappropriating more than $60 million.

His arrest could see his assets, including his horses, frozen and the sale of the horses to Schockemohle suggests Onyshchenko was conscious of such a scenario.