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A Kyiv court has released on bail an influential former lawmaker suspected of embezzlement.

The April 22 ruling follows the detention two days earlier of Mykola Martynenko, an ally of former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, after the National Anticorruption Bureau announced it was preparing to file charges against him.

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