Blaze Media By PHIL SHIVER
Two sisters in North Dakota spent Thanksgiving without their beloved brother this year — but not because of work obligations, health problems, or any other reasons that one might expect.
Rather, Kurt Groszhans, a self-described “humble American investor” and farmer from Ashley, North Dakota, is currently detained in Ukraine under suspicion that he attempted to assassinate the country’s minister of agriculture.
But his family insists he is the victim of embezzlement and is now being railroaded to cover up the foreign government official’s crimes. Now they are pleading for help from the American government to ensure that their brother is treated respectfully and granted a fair trial.
What are the details?
According to local news outlet, Inforum, Groszhans and a Ukrainian woman named Olena Bohach were arrested and placed in pretrial detention this week for allegedly seeking to arrange the assassination of Roman Leshchenko, the country’s minister of agrarian policy and food.
Groszhans, whose family emigrated from Ukraine in 1910, started taking trips to the country in the early 2000s and eventually set up a farming company there. That’s when he met and decided to go into business with Leshchenko, who at the time, according to Groszhans was just “a middle-class entrepreneur in the agricultural sector.”…
