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Former deputy mayor of Odesa, who fled abroad, will remain under pretrial detention in absentia.
The Appeals Chamber of the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) kept former deputy mayor of Odesa Mykhailo Kuchuk under pretrial detention in absentia, who allegedly received monthly bribes from the criminal organization of businessmen Borys Kaufman and Alex Borukhovych (previously Oleksandr Hranovsky). The decision of 15 August was made by the Appeals Chamber of NABU and SAPO.
In February this year, the Anticorruption Court ordered Kuchuk's arrest in absentia. His defense filed an appeal against this decision. Kuchuk has been declared wanted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is currently evading capture abroad.
In December 2022, NABU and SAPO detained the businessmen Kaufman and Ghranovsky. According to the investigation, in the autumn of 2021, after detectives of NABU and prosecutors of SAPO exposed a criminal organization that specialized in corrupt schemes for illicit removal of property from municipal ownership of Odesa, a new organization appeared in its place.
This organization took control of virtually all matters of the city’s economic life, including interactions with developers, procurement at the local budget, activities of municipal enterprises, and other aspects of business interaction. To ensure uninterrupted achievement of its declared goals, the organizers established a system of systematic bribery of officials and deputies of the local council, as evidenced by the proofs obtained by NABU and SAPO during the investigation.
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