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One of the defendants in the Kolomoisky case was released due to the expiration of pretrial investigation terms.
Judges’ opinions in the case of former PrivatBank owner Ihor Kolomoyskyi diverged. Judge Larysa Zadorozhna of the Higher Anticorruption Court imposed a preventive measure: although she did not arrest the former head of the PrivatBank interbank operations department, Nadija Konopkina, she ordered a bail of 1,61 million hryvnias. At the same time, judge Oleh Tkachenko ruled that the pretrial investigation terms had expired, and therefore he released another defendant.
As journalist Oleh Novikov writes in his Telegram channel, by Tkachenko’s decision, the former deputy head of the direction – director of the PrivatBank interbank dealing department, Yaroslav Luhovyi, was released without a preventive measure. "Why did the terms expire? I will try to explain now. In March 2018 of the year, the amendments by Andriy Lozovyi (a deputy of the previous convocation from the Radical Party) came into force. They provided that in cases opened after the amendments, the investigation must be continued by investigative judges, whereas for the amendments – by prosecutor’s (deputy attorney general) resolutions," the journalist wrote.
The case in which Kolomoyskyi was notified of suspicion was opened in 2017 year, i.e., before the amendments, and the investigation there continued by resolutions of the prosecutors general. But in the same case they had previously reported suspicion in another episode – embezzlement of 8,4 billion hryvnias of PrivatBank by former board chairman Oleksandr Dubilet and others. Later, materials related to them were allocated to a new proceeding, and the old case was left without suspects on other facts.
"And in one of those facts they were charged already Kolomoyskyi, Dubilet and the rest. However, in judge Tkachenko’s view, the investigation terms had already lapsed in the case because charges had already been brought and terms continued to be calculated. Probably judge Zadorozhna holds another view, because she did indeed apply a preventive measure. I will follow this case. It will be interesting to see what decisions are made regarding the other suspects," the journalist explained.
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