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VAKS declined to close the case against Zlochevskyi
The High Anti-Corruption Court refused to return the indictment to the prosecutor and to terminate the criminal proceedings on the accusation of former Minister of Ecology Mykola Zlochevskyi in providing 5 million dollars of improper benefit to the leadership of NABU and SAP.
The respective decisions 14 and 21 were issued in September by a panel of judges of VAKS.
Defense lawyers for former minister Zlochevskyi filed a motion to close the case on the basis of item 10 part 1 article 284 of the CPC, namely because the pre-trial investigation period ended after notifying the person of suspicion. The lawyers also requested returning the indictment to the prosecutor SAP or closing the case on other grounds. However all motions were dismissed by the court. The court denied the motion to close the criminal proceedings No. 52020000000000473.
Recall that NABU and SAP formally notified Zlochevskyi of suspicion of organizing the provision of 5 million dollars to their leaders in exchange for closing the case about misappropriation through refinancing at Real Bank of the National Bank of Ukraine, where the suspect also includes the former Minister of Ecology. He was later put on the wanted list. After that Zlochevskyi was arrested in his absence.
Prior to this, NABU detained three people suspected of bribing Khodlynicky and the bureau’s director Artem Sytniuk in the amount of 5 million dollars. According to the investigation, Andriy Kicha, Olena Mazurova, and Mykola Ilyashenko tried to bribe the heads of anti-corruption bodies to close the criminal proceedings in which Zlochevskyi was notified of suspicion. It concerns the case of misappropriation of funds from a stabilization loan of the National Bank of Ukraine issued to the Real Bank controlled by Serhiy Kurchenko, and the laundering of these funds. Currently the case against the three defendants is being heard in the Anti-Corruption Court.
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