Former MP Serhiy Pashinsky was released from pre-trial detention center on bail of UAH 299 million paid by the enterprises of the National Association of Defense Industry Enterprises.
Pashinsky himself announced this, expressing gratitude for the support, but expressing concern that funds intended for weapons production were used to secure his bail on bogus charges. He stated his intention to return every penny.
Pashinsky also claims that the conversations that were circulated online are a falsification, and has filed a statement about this.
The former People's Deputy is suspected of complicity in a criminal organization that caused losses to the state in the amount of 967 million hryvnias between 2014 and 2018. Among the other suspects in the case, known as the "Kurchenko fuel case," there are five more people.
Serhiy Kurchenko, a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch, owner of the SEPEK group of companies, who has been in Moscow since the Revolution of Dignity, is a key figure in this case. He is accused of misappropriating and legalizing property and funds of state-owned enterprises worth over 12 billion hryvnias.
