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During the court hearing on his preventive measure, SBU General Serhii Duka said that NABU summoned the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andrii Pyshnyi, yesterday to organize banks’ blocking of accepting bail for him. Duka reported this during the court hearing on the selection of his preventive measure, according to Hlavkom.
“Yesterday NABU summoned Pyshnyi so that he would not allow my bail to be accepted. Ask Pyshnyi whether he was at NABU yesterday. And you will see what will happen next with the bail that will be set for me — banks will not accept it,” the general said.
Thus, Duka suggested that even if the court sets bail, its actual payment could be blocked by banking institutions.
Duka asked investigators to confirm or refute his claims about the alleged visit of the NBU head to NABU. At the same time, he did not provide evidence that such a meeting took place or that Pyshnyi received instructions to block the bail payment.
Note that the general’s statement is currently his personal assertion. It by itself does not indicate the NBU head’s involvement in the investigation within the “Carthage” case.
It is worth recalling that the issue of bank control over funds posted as bail in High Anti-Corruption Court cases escalated after a number of high-profile criminal proceedings. In particular, in August NABU and the SAP reported the “Forrest Gump” operation. According to the investigation, scheme participants legalized 150 million UAH, which were later used to post bail for former minister Herman Halushchenko. The case also examines transactions carried out through the banking system.
The current statement to the NBU was directly preceded by a decision of the High Anti-Corruption Court regarding bail for former Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Iryna Mudra. Her defense said that banks and payment services refuse to process payments for the court-ordered bail.
The HACC granted the defense’s complaint and obliged the National Bank to check the banks’ refusals. The court also demanded information about letters and recommendations from the NBU to financial institutions regarding transactions with the payment purpose “bail.” After that, the regulator publicly emphasized that it had not instructed banks to automatically refuse to process such transactions.
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