MP Maksym Poliakov of the People’s Front faction has posted a bail, imposed on him by Solomiansky District Court of Kyiv as a preventive measure.
“The law-abiding citizen has posted the bail,” Poliakov wrote on his Facebook page on July 25, illustrating the message with a scan copy of the relevant payment receipt of Hr 304,000 in favor of the State Treasury dated July 25.
Poliakov also paid Hr 750 of commission for the transfer of funds.
Poliakov is suspected of violating Part 4 of Article 368 (illegal profiteering) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
NABU agents guided by the agents from the Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) on June 19, detained seven persons involved in extorting and receiving unlawful profits using a foreign company to carry out amber mining in Ukraine.
Detectives determined the arrested individuals, acting in the interests of MPs Poliakov and Borys Rozenblat, received more than $300,000 in bribes from representatives of the foreign company in order to draft a law on amber mining in favor of the foreign company and submit it to parliament for adoption.
Head of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) Yuriy Lutsenko on June 21 provided parliament with a letter requesting stripping immunity from the deputies and allowing their arrest. The Rada did so on July 11.
On July 21 Kyiv’s Solomiansky District Court remanded Poliakov into pretrial custody, setting bail at Hr 304,000, in addition to setting several requirements. The court also obliged the MP to wear an electronic monitoring device and forbade him from leaving Kyiv and Uman (Cherkasy region) without permission of investigators, prosecutors or the court, as well as to turn over his foreign passports.
The pretrial conditions are in effect until August 19.
