The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv decided to continue to keep businessman Ihor Kolomoiskyi in custody until March 2.
However, he has the opportunity to leave the pre-trial detention center if he posts a bail of 2.65 billion hryvnias. This decision was made during a meeting on January 22. Prosecutors requested that Kolomoisky continue to be held in the pre-trial detention center during the pre-trial investigation, while lawyers insisted on changing the preventive measure from guard arrest to house arrest in the village of Mykilske-na-Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk region. They argued their demand by the “unsatisfactory health of the businessman.” The court also refused to release Kolomoisky on bail.
In September 2023, Ihor Kolomoisky was suspected of fraud according to materials from the Security Service of Ukraine and the Bureau of Economic Security. According to the indictment, during 2013-2020, Kolomoisky illegally legalized more than half a billion hryvnias by transferring them abroad, using the financial infrastructure under his control.
Subsequently, Kolomoisky was given a preventive measure in the form of detention for 60 days, with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of over 509 million hryvnias.
On September 7, Ihor Kolomoisky was charged with corruption. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office took measures to secure the seizure of his assets.
On September 15, law enforcement officers announced a new suspicion against him under three articles in the case, which concerns the misuse of 5.8 billion hryvnias. The next day, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court changed the amount of bail to three billion 891 million hryvnias. On November 10, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court rejected the motion of Ihor Kolomoiskyi's lawyers to change the preventive measure to house arrest.
