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NABU and SAP had certain suspicions regarding the payment of some bail amounts.
Anti-corruption agencies will check the origin of the funds that were transferred to the accounts of the High Anti-Corruption Court as bail for defendants in a number of criminal proceedings. This was stated by the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, Oleksandr Klymenko, in an interview with "Ye Pytannya".
The host asked him whether, after the “Forrest Gump” case, NABU would be checking the bail posted for former Head of the Presidential Office Andrii Yermak.
In response he noted that NABU and SAP had certain suspicions regarding the payment of some bail amounts.
“We will check this as much as possible retroactively, not online. Confirming all of this is more difficult, but we will move in this direction,” the head of SAP said.
According to him, there is a fairly effective mechanism for posting bail if it operates according to the law and there is no manual interference.
“How monitoring of funds being deposited into the bank accounts of individuals, individual entrepreneurs, and legal entities takes place. There is a financial monitoring unit within the bank itself. If it sees a suspicious transaction, it must notify the State Financial Monitoring Service about those transactions. And, in principle, they make a decision about whether something is suspicious,” Klymenko said.
He noted that additional checks are planned not only in Yermak’s case but in many proceedings. In addition, Klymenko added that anti-corruption agencies immediately contact the financial monitoring service after bail is posted without registering criminal proceedings, so that they can trace the chain of money movement within the financial system.
“If the chain begins, for example, with cash being deposited by unclear persons who have no sources of income into the bank accounts of certain legal entities and then, along the chain, those funds are transferred and end up in the High Anti-Corruption Court's account, that raises suspicions and they have to check it,” the head of SAP said.
When asked whether there are grounds to suspect that Yermak’s bail involved the same story as that of former energy minister Herman Halushchenko, Klymenko replied that first “you need to gather the facts, and then work with them and draw conclusions.”
Recall, 11 May the former Head of the Presidential Office Andrii Yermak was accused by NABU in connection with luxury estates in the Dynasty cooperative, for the construction of which more than 460 million UAH were legalized through corrupt schemes in Energoatom. According to the media, one of the four houses belonged to him, while the other residences were owned by former Vice Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov, the president’s close friend and business partner Timur Mindich, and a person referred to on recordings as "Vova." Later the anti-corruption agencies stated that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a subject of the investigation.
The High Anti-Corruption Court decided to place Yermak in custody with the option of bail in the amount of 140 million UAH. A few days later the former Head of the Presidential Office was released from pre-trial detention. According to the media, the bail for Yermak was posted by seven companies and seven individuals. Because Yermak was released from custody, he has a number of procedural obligations. Why the bail episode became a moment of truth for Zelenskyy’s power system was explained by Inna Vedernikova in the article “Cash on the way out. How collecting bail for Yermak revealed the essence of Zelenskyy’s system.”
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