Chairman of the Ukrainian State Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov, who has been suspended on charges of embezzlement, claims he has submitted all the foreign travel documents to the State Migration Service of Ukraine.
“As I’ve promised, I continue to keep [the public] in the loop: I’ve arrived at the Kyiv main department of the State Migration Service of Ukraine in keeping with the commitments to the court and handed over additional travel documents for storage, in addition to those that have been earlier confiscated,” Nasirov wrote on Facebook on March 20 evening.
He said he “was never going to hide from investigators, and on the contrary, he always was and is ready to cooperate with the pre-trial investigation agencies.”
Detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) on March 2 presented charges against Nasirov and apprehended him in the Feofania hospital outside Kyiv. He is suspected of committing a crime pursuant to Part 2 of Article 364 (embezzlement) of Ukraine’s Criminal Code.
On March 6, state prosecutors passed a document to Kyiv’s Solomyansky district court that proves that he has British citizenship since May 2012, which was confirmed by a letter from the NCA. Nasirov in turn testified he is a citizen of Ukraine.
In the early hours of March 7, the Solomyansky district court remanded Nasirov to pretrial confinement for two months, setting bail at Hr 100 million, while prosecutors from Ukraine’s Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office had asked the court to set bail at Hr 2 billion.
On March 16, Nasirov’s wife posted Hr 100 million bail for him. The court obliged Nasirov to transfer all his foreign passports and other travel documents to the State Migration Service.
Standing at the building of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine on March 17, Nasirov told reporters: “Absolutely most passports were seized during raids – they were confiscated by [NABU] agents… two foreign ones, one Ukrainian [passport]. I will have to check now what they’ve taken, then I will have to go and see if there are any other passports – and I’ll hand them over [to the migration service] with great pleasure.”
