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The High Anti-Corruption Court returned the foreign passport to Kaufman, who is suspected of controlling the Odesa City Council.
The High Anti-Corruption Court returned the foreign passport to oligarch Boris Kaufman, whom NABU and SAP suspect of creating a criminal organization in the Odesa City Council. The remaining duties were extended until 1 September. The decision was made by Judge Oleh Tkachenko.
Former vice-mayor of Odesa, who fled abroad, owns assets in Ukraine worth millions of hryvnias. Previously the court took businessperson Kaufman into custody with an alternative 129 million hryvnias. He was released on bail. Later, the bracelet was removed from Kaufman.
At the same time 9 June, investigative judge Yaroslav Shkodin partially supported the lawyers’ motion for Kaufman and changed the suspect’s obligation to surrender foreign passports to an obligation to come with a foreign passport to the anti-corruption court 3 July. The reasons for this decision are unknown, as the full text of the document is classified.
Therefore 3 July, Judge Tkachenko refused to extend Kaufman’s obligation to appear before the court with a foreign passport, as such would contradict procedural law.
Recall that 5 December 2022 NABU and SAP detained businessmen Kaufman and Granovskyi. According to the investigation, in the autumn 2021 year, after detectives from NABU and prosecutors from SAP uncovered a criminal organization that specialized in corrupt schemes for illegal removing property from municipal ownership of Odesa, a new one emerged in its place.
This organization took control of almost all matters of the city’s economic life, among them interactions with developers, purchases at the expense of the local budget, the operations of municipal enterprises, and other aspects of engagement with business. To ensure the uninterrupted achievement of the set goals, the organizers established a process of systematic bribery of officials and council members, as evidenced by the proofs obtained by NABU and SAP during the investigation.
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