For the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solskyi, a deposit of UAH 75.7 million was made.
About this reported To the public, his lawyer Nazar Kulchytskyi.
Solsky is now obliged to appear at the request of a NABU detective, an investigator or a court, not to leave Kyiv, not to communicate with witnesses in the case, to hand over his passport and other documents, and to wear an electronic bracelet.
The minister was also forbidden to communicate with his deputy Markiyan Dmytrasevich, another suspect in this case.
At the same time, Solsky remains a minister and will be able to return to his duties following his release from custody. The minister’s defense will appeal the court’s decision. “We do not agree with this court decision. We will receive it, study it, and then make a decision on its appeal,” lawyer Nazar Kulchytskyi said.
Despite the fact that Mykola Solsky submitted his resignation from the post of minister the day before, until the Verkhovna Rada voted for it, he remains a minister.
In the morning, the Higher Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine chose a preventive measure once morest the Minister of Agricultural Policy, Mykola Solskyi, who is suspected of expropriating state land worth UAH 291 million and attempting to expropriate another UAH 190 million. The minister was sent to custody for two months with an alternative to bail.
The court granted the request of the prosecutors and ordered Solsky to be remanded in custody until June 24 with the possibility of bail. At the same time, VAKS reduced the amount of bail from UAH 200 million requested by prosecutors to UAH 75.7 million.