Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
Today the investigative judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court applied a preventive measure to the former head of one of the OPG Departments — detention with the alternative of posting bail in the amount of 8 million UAH.
At the same time, the SAP prosecutor requested bail in the amount of 100 million UAH.
This concerns the criminal proceeding 'Carthage'.
Meanwhile, the SAP reports that the funds received were laundered by members of the organization, which included OPG officials, through the acquisition of real estate worth more than 20 million UAH.
The members of the criminal organization also laundered more than 10 million UAH by placing it in the accounts of close persons.
At the same time, the total amount of documented illicit gains exceeds 1 billion UAH.
In light of all this math, the declared amount of illicit gain being in the billions resembles claims about the presence of 1000 hours of recordings in the Midas case or the existence of the non‑existent 'shlagbaum' scheme in that same case.
If that sum were at least somewhat confirmed by real evidence in the case, alternative preventive measures for the defendants would be tens of times larger, not 8 million UAH as is today for Ivan Tymoshenko, or 3 million UAH for Serhiy Kutsyi (also known as Kamrad), or 15 million UAH for Oleksandr Dydych.
The defendants received a billion, of which they laundered only 20 million UAH, and another 10 million UAH was placed in a bank account. That sounds unconvincing.
With a real amount of illicit gain exceeding a billion, the investigative judge would never have set bail at 8 million UAH, given that the prosecutor requested 100 million UAH.