The question of the adequacy of bail set for persons accused of corruption crimes is quite old. Therefore, we offer you a list of 5 officials who stole astronomical sums, paid bail in the amount of 10%-30% of the stolen and enjoy life in freedom.
This is reported by the editors of the 360UA NEWS
Nasirov received a bribe of 722 million, released on bail of 55 million
The ex-head of the State Fiscal Service is accused of allegedly receiving a bribe in the amount of UAH 722 million for VAT reimbursement to the companies of agricultural baron 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 UAH 523 million. Since then, the preventive measure has been repeatedly extended, but the bail has been reduced almost ten times.
At the beginning of May, the judges of the VACS partially granted the request of the prosecutor to extend the term of detention of Roman Nasirov, reducing the amount of bail to UAH 55 million.
Previously, Nasirov's defense asked to determine the bail in the amount of UAH 22 million.
And already on May 24, was paid .
Nasirov must hand over all foreign passports, service passport, other documents giving the right to leave Ukraine, and wear an electronic bracelet.
Nikitas: 5 criminal episodes, including fraud and kidnapping, and the price of freedom is 908,000
The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court (HCC) has changed the preventive measure for ex-Deputy of People's Republic and developer Maksym Mykytas, who is suspected of seizing 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 given bail in the amount of 908,000 hryvnias. And already on May 2, he paid and left.
It all started with the fact that in 2019 NABU accused Mykytas of taking possession of MK property of the National Guard in the amount of more than... UAH 81 million.
Subsequently, 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 the Energoatom division of NAEK concluded a contract for UAH 929 million with a company controlled by it, for which an official of the state 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 the 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.
VAKS sent Mykytas under house arrest in November 2023.
Journalist Oleg Novikov reported that the SAP 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 asked for a higher bail than the VAKS judge decided. SAP filed an appeal against this decision.
The court partially satisfied the request of the SAP prosecutor, changing the preventive measure from house arrest to bail. The size of the pledge is 908 thousand 400 hryvnias.
Sukhovych: 98 million of illegal enrichment - a pledge of 15 million
On February 13, the deputy of the Rivne Regional Council and the deputy head of the Polissky Forestry Office, Vitaliy Suhovych, was released from the pre-trial detention center, as he was bailed 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 Higher Anti-Corruption Court (HCAC) "Rivne Media" reported, the deposit was made on January 24. Part of this amount, namely 5 million hryvnias, was allowed to be transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The press service of the court did not say whether the suspect himself posted the bail or someone else.
It is worth noting that previously Vitaly Sukhovich's bail amount was 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), more than 4 million US dollars in various currencies were found in Sukhovych's possession during searches. The 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 of ammunition were found.
Also, the suspect's accounts where he kept more than 400,000 euros were blocked.
And already on June 6, the Rivne official received a ridiculous three-year suspended sentence in the case of illegal enrichment for 98 million hryvnias.
Yevhen Borisov: 12 million for laundering 142
On May 28, Yevgeny Borisov, the former head of the Odesa Regional TCC, was detained in Kyiv after bail in the amount of 12 million hryvnias posted He was informed of a new suspicion regarding the legalization of illegal income in the amount of more than 142 million hryvnias. This was announced by the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) on May 28 on its website.
In April, SBI investigators completed the pre-trial investigation and submitted another case regarding Borisov to the court. All this time he was in the pre-trial detention center.
What is known about Borisov:
During the investigation by the journalists of the "Ukrainian Pravda" publication, it became known that during the full-scale war, Yevhen Borysov's family bought real estate and cars worth millions of dollars on the Spanish coast.
In May, the SBI opened criminal proceedings under Part 5 of Art. 426-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and removed Borisov from his post. After the property scandal in Spain, President Zelenskyy gave an urgent order to the Head of State, Zaluzhny, to immediately dismiss Borisov from his post.
On July 19, 2023, the head of the NAZK, Oleksandr Novikov, announced that Yevhen Borisov had embezzled 188 million UAH — a record amount of illegal enrichment.
Three days later, Borysova was charged with illegal enrichment of hundreds of millions of hryvnias and deliberate evasion of duty. The former official tried to escape from the investigation, using elements of a conspiracy - he changed phone numbers, cars, etc., 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 release on 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 hryvnias.
Borisov is currently in custody.
Knyazev: for $2.7 million in illegal profits, a bail of 18 million hryvnias
The former head of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev, was released from custody after bail in the amount of UAH 18.168 million was posted for him. The specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office plans to appeal to the Supreme Council of Justice with a request to remove Knyazev from the administration of justice in connection with criminal prosecution.
In the afternoon, sources in the law enforcement agencies informed Suspilno about the bail for Knyazev. Knyazev's lawyer, Ivan Starosta, confirmed this information, noting that the bail was made 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 deposit was made by acquaintances of Vsevolod Knyazev.
Earlier, the investigative judge of the State Criminal Court of Ukraine 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 pre-trial detention center.
On May 15, 2023, the NABU and SAP exposed a scheme of obtaining illegal benefits by the leadership and judges of the Supreme Court. Vsevolod Knyazev was detained with 2.7 million dollars.
The head of the Supreme Court informed Knyazev and his accomplice, a lawyer, about suspicion in the case of receiving a bribe. NABU made public the recordings of the wiretapping of Knyazeev in the case of his receiving a bribe.
On May 16, an extraordinary plenum was convened in the Supreme Court, at which the judges adopted a statement on the responsibility for the corrupt actions of individual representatives. The plenum expressed its lack of confidence in Knyazev and prematurely deprived him of the status of head 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 a bail of 107 million UAH. 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 ones who are so "lucky", one gets the impression that the judicial authorities have a very big heart, setting bails that are ten times smaller than the sums for which officials are held accountable. Or it is some new unspoken kind of taxation on… corruption.
