The Shevchenkiv District Court of Kyiv decided to continue keeping businessman Ihor Kolomoisky in custody until March 2.
However, he has the opportunity to leave the pre-trial detention center if he pays a bail of 2.65 billion hryvnias. This decision was made during the meeting on January 22. Prosecutors requested the continuation of Kolomoiskyi's detention in the pre-trial detention center during the pre-trial investigation, while lawyers insisted on changing the preventive measure from pretrial detention to house arrest in the village of Mykilske-on-Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk region. They justified their demand with the "unsatisfactory state of the businessman's health". The court also refused to transfer Kolomoisky to bail.
In September 2023, Ihor Kolomoiskyi was suspected of fraud according to the materials of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Bureau of Economic Security. According to the indictment, during the years 2013-2020, Kolomoisky illegally legalized more than half a billion hryvnias by transferring them abroad, using the financial infrastructure that was under his control.
Subsequently, a preventive measure was applied to Kolomoisky in the form of detention for 60 days, with the possibility of making bail in the amount of over 509 million hryvnias.
On September 7, Ihor Kolomoisky was charged with suspicion. 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, the law enforcement officers announced a new suspicion against him under three articles in the case, which refers to the misuse of 5.8 billion hryvnias. The next day, the Shevchenkiv District Court changed the bail amount to three billion 891 million hryvnias. On November 10, the Shevchenkiv District Court rejected the request of Igor Kolomoiskyi's lawyers to change the preventive measure to house arrest.
