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Member of Parliament Vadym Stolar, who figures in the recordings of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, has returned to Ukraine. 20 In August he was indicted in absentia, and now he has nonetheless entered the territory of the state.
The deputy is charged with crimes under various parts of five different articles of the Criminal Code. Among the charges are the creation of a criminal organization, unlawful seizure of property, forgery, and unauthorized interference with the operation of information systems. For creating a criminal organization, the deputy faces imprisonment for from 7 to 12 years with asset seizure, and for unauthorized interference with the operation of information systems — from 10 to 15 years, since the acts were committed during martial law, reports "Ukrainska Pravda".
"Member of Parliament Vadym Stolar, who figures in the recordings of the NABU and SAP investigations, has returned to Ukraine," the publication reported.
How the case against Stolar developed
19 In August, NABU and SAP announced a special operation to expose a criminal organization that, according to the investigation, included a current and a former deputy and senior officials of the Office of the President. It was during that time that searches were conducted at Stolar’s home, and the deputy had been abroad for several weeks at that moment.
The case is titled "Themis" and is connected to a Kyiv-based raiding scheme and the legalization of funds collected as bail for the former energy minister Herman Halushchenko. The investigation believes that the criminal organization was created by Stolar and former deputy Maksym Mykyta, and it may have included former deputy head of the President’s Office Iryna Mudra.
Earlier, Informator reported that Stolar left Ukraine as early as July, long before the searches — according to sources, 10 in August he celebrated his birthday abroad and was not eager to return. A probable reason for the early departure, the sources cited, was a leak about the preparation of a suspicion against him.
We also wrote that Stolar and Mykyta signed a written partnership — the agreement records partners’ contributions amounting to 1,42 million dollars to joint projects and another 800 thousand dollars as a separate loan. This so‑called, “understandable,” agreement, according to the investigation, formed the basis of the high-profile case about creating a criminal organization.
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