You're reading: Deputy customs head banned from leaving Kyiv

Former head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, former minister for transport and communications and Deputy Head of the State Customs Service Viktor Bondar has given a written undertaking not to leave Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine learned at the media relations department of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine on Wednesday.

Bondar was asked not to leave the city as a pre-trial restriction.

The General Prosecutor’s Office detained former Bondar on abuse charges. On Dec. 24, the Prosecutor General’s Office charged him with criminal offences under part 5 of article 27, Part 2 of Article 194 and Article 353 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (aiding to embezzlement, which caused large-scale property damage).