The question of the adequacy of bails set for people accused of corruption crimes is quite old. Therefore, we offer you a list of 5 officials who stole astronomical sums, paid bails of 10%-30% of the stolen amount and are enjoying life in freedom.
This is reported by the editorial office of the 360UA NEWS
Nasirov received a bribe of 722 million, was released on bail of 55 million
The former head of the State Fiscal Service is accused of allegedly receiving a bribe of UAH 722 million for VAT reimbursement to companies of agrobaron Bakhmatyuk.
In total, Nasirov has been in custody for a year and a half. In October 2022, he was taken into custody with a bail of 523 million UAH. Since then, the preventive measure has been extended several times, but the bail has been reduced almost tenfold.
In early May, the judges of the High Court of Cassation partially granted the prosecutor's request to extend Roman Nasirov's detention, reducing the bail amount to UAH 55 million.
Previously, Nasirov's defense requested that bail be set at UAH 22 million.
, a bail of 55 million hryvnias was posted for Roman Nasirov
Nasirov must surrender all foreign passports, service passport, and other documents that give the right to leave Ukraine, as well as wear an electronic bracelet.
Mykytas: 5 criminal episodes, including racketeering and kidnapping, and the price of freedom is 908 thousand
The High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has changed the preventive measure for former People's Deputy and developer Maksym Mykytas, who is suspected of misappropriating property of the National Guard and the Ministry of Defense worth millions of hryvnias. On May 30 of this year, instead of house arrest, he was set bail in the amount of 908 thousand hryvnias. And on May 2, he paid it and was released.
It all started when in 2019, NABU suspected Mykytas of misappropriating National Guard property worth over... 81 million UAH.
Later in 2020, Mykytas was suspected of ordering the kidnapping of a lawyer in Kyiv.
Also in 2020, NABU informed Mykytas about the suspicion that in 2017, a division of NNEGC Energoatom concluded a contract for UAH 929 million with a company controlled by it, for which an official of the state-owned enterprise received apartments.
In 2022, Mykytas was suspected of offering an illegal benefit in a particularly large amount (22 million euros for the opportunity to build a metro in Dnipro).
On October 25, 2023, Mykytas was accused of embezzling UAH 307 million from the Ministry of Defense during the construction of warehouses in 2018.
The VAKS sent Mykytas under house arrest in November 2023.
Journalist Oleg Novikov reported that the SAPO prosecutor initiated the change in the preventive measure, as Mykytas had been under house arrest for six months, which is the maximum term. The prosecutor requested a higher bail than the judge of the Supreme Court of Criminal Appeals. The SAPO appealed this decision.
The court partially granted the request of the SAPO prosecutor, changing the preventive measure from house arrest to bail. The amount of bail is 908,400 hryvnias.
Sukhovych: 98 million illegal enrichment – bail of 15 million
On February 13, Rivne Regional Council deputy and deputy head of the Polissya Forestry Office Vitaliy Sukhovych was released from pre-trial detention after bail was posted in the amount of 15 million 140 thousand hryvnias. He is suspected of illegal enrichment of 98 million hryvnias.
As the press service of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) reported to Rivne Media, the bail was paid on January 24. Part of this amount, namely 5 million hryvnias, was allowed to be transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The court's press service did not say whether the suspect himself or someone else posted the bail.
It is worth noting that previously Vitaliy Sukhovich had his bail reduced twice - first by 13 times, and then from UAH 15.14 million to UAH 10.14 million.
According to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), during the searches, more than 4 million US dollars in various currencies were found in Sukhovich's possession. Law enforcement officers also found three luxury cars: "Audi Q8", "Mercedes-Benz GLE 350E", "BMW X5", jewelry and expensive watches, including the luxury brand Patek Philippe. In addition, gold coins, gold bars, two pistols and a Kalashnikov assault rifle with 16 magazines with cartridges were found.
The suspect's accounts, where he kept over 400,000 euros, were also blocked.
And already on June 6, a Rivne official received a ridiculous three-year suspended sentence in a case of illegal enrichment of 98 million hryvnias.
Yevhen Borisov: 12 million for laundering 142
On May 28, the former head of the Odessa Regional CCC, Yevhen Borisov, was detained in Kyiv after bail in the amount of 12 million hryvnias was posted on a previous charge. He was informed of a new suspicion of legalization of illegal income in the amount of more than 142 million hryvnias. The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) reported this on its website on May 28.
In April, SBI investigators completed the pre-trial investigation and referred another case against Borisov to court. During this time, he was held in a pre-trial detention center.
What is known about Borisov:
During an investigation by journalists from the publication "Ukrainska Pravda", it became known that Yevhen Borisov's family purchased real estate and cars worth millions of dollars on the Spanish coast during the full-scale war.
In May, the State Bureau of Investigation opened criminal proceedings under Part 5 of Article 426-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and removed Borisov from office. After the property scandal in Spain, President Zelensky gave an urgent instruction to the Chief Commissioner of Zaluzhny to immediately dismiss Borisov from office.
On July 19, 2023, the head of the NACP, Oleksandr Novikov, reported that Yevhen Borisov had embezzled UAH 188 million — a record amount of illicit enrichment.
Three days later, Borisova was charged with illegal enrichment of hundreds of millions of hryvnias and deliberate evasion of duty. The former official tried to escape the investigation by using elements of conspiracy - changing phone numbers, cars, etc., and location.
Borisov was detained on July 24, 2023 in Kyiv. The next day, the Pechersk District Court chose a preventive measure for him in the form of two months of arrest with the possibility of bail in the amount of 150 million hryvnias. On October 12, the Kyiv Court of Appeal reduced the bail from 150 million hryvnias to 135 million.
Borisov is currently in custody.
Knyazev: $2.7 million in ill-gotten gains, bail set at 18 million hryvnias
Former Supreme Court Chairman Vsevolod Knyazev was released from custody after posting bail of UAH 18.168 million. The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office plans to apply to the High Council of Justice with a motion to remove Knyazev from administering justice in connection with his criminal prosecution.
Law enforcement sources told Suspilny about the bail for Knyazev this afternoon. Knyazev's lawyer, Ivan Starosta, confirmed this information, noting that the bail was posted due to the deterioration of his client's health, as it is impossible to provide proper treatment in the pre-trial detention center. He also added that the bail was posted by Vsevolod Knyazev's acquaintances.
Earlier, the investigating judge of the Supreme Court of Criminal Appeals reduced Knyazev's bail from UAH 20 million to UAH 18.168 million. On January 31, the money was paid for him, and he was released from the pretrial detention center.
On May 15, 2023, NABU and SAPO exposed a scheme for obtaining illegal benefits by the leadership and judges of the Supreme Court. Vsevolod Knyazev was detained with $2.7 million.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Knyazev and his accomplice, a lawyer, were informed of suspicion in a bribery case. NABU has published recordings of Knyazev's wiretapping in a bribery case.
On May 16, the Supreme Court convened an extraordinary plenum, at which the judges adopted a statement of responsibility for the corrupt actions of individual representatives. The plenum expressed no confidence in Knyazev and prematurely deprived him of the status of Chairman of the Supreme Court.
On May 18, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine chose a preventive measure for Knyazev in the form of detention with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of UAH 107 million. The bail was later reduced to UAH 75 million, and then reduced several more times until it reached UAH 18.168 million.
Studying the stories of such characters, despite the fact that they are not the only “lucky ones”, one gets the impression that the judiciary has a very big heart, setting bails tens of times smaller than the amounts for which officials are brought to justice. Or is this some new, unspoken type of taxation on… corruption.
