Higher Anti-Corruption Court rejected Ihory Kolomoiskyi’s motion to change the preventive measure in the case of misappropriation of funds.
Kolomoiskyi’s defense emphasized “inaccuracies in the case materials” and “absence of evidence of damages.” The lawyers denied his involvement in the crime and demanded the mitigation of the preventive measure.
The prosecutor, in his turn, presented the evidence of the prosecution, noting that there were no funds in the form of cash, and the examination confirmed an unjustified increase in assets. The investigation believes that the works for which “Ukrnafta” allocated funds were not actually carried out, and the money was transferred to the suspect’s account.
In addition, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv extended the preventive measure in the form of detention for Kolomoiskyi until April 9. The court also extended the preventive measure in the case of the organization of the contract killing of lawyer Serhiy Karpenko in 2003. The prosecutor attached five volumes of evidence to the case file, including witness interviews and expert opinions.
We will remind that Ihor Kolomoiskyi is accused of misappropriation of property, illegal transactions with bank documents, laundering of funds obtained through crime, as well as official forgery. It is about a scheme according to which the suspect actually did not deposit 5.8 billion hryvnias into the bank’s cash register, and also took possession of more than 5.3 billion hryvnias, which were later legalized.
In addition, the Bureau of Economic Security stated that they had proven the fact that Kolomoisky organized the embezzlement of over 3.3 billion hryvnias from Ukrnafta and companies that concluded agreements on joint investment activity.
Ihor Kolomoisky was charged with criminal offenses under four articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 3 of Art. 28, Part 2 of Art. 366 (official forgery), Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 3 of Art. 28, Part 2 of Art. 200 (illegal actions with bank documents), Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 3 of Art. 209 (money laundering) and Part 3 of Art. 27, Part 5 of Art. 191 (appropriation of property in particularly large amounts).
