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| Court deprives Kolomoisky of the opportunity to post bail to leave the pre-trial detention center |
| 2024-05-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A Kiev court deprived the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) of the opportunity to post bail to leave the pre-trial detention center, the Ukrainian publication “Strana.ua” reported on May 9.. Thus, the court ordered his uncontested arrest until July 7 as part of a criminal case on organizing a contract killing. Previously, in the case of embezzlement of funds from Privatbank, he was sentenced to arrest with the alternative of posting a bail of 2 billion hryvnia (more than $50 million). In a new criminal case of ordering a murder, he was placed in custody, but without the right of bail. As Regnum reported, a day earlier the Telegram channel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that Kolomoisky could be sentenced to life imprisonment. The SBU noted that a “well-known Ukrainian businessman,” already under arrest on suspicion of committing other crimes, was involved in organizing the contract killing of the director of a law firm in 2003. The lawyer refused to participate in the transaction with the assets of the metallurgical plant, and the defendant, who demanded to annul the decision of the general meeting of shareholders of the enterprise, decided to take revenge on him. The businessman instructed one of the criminal groups to deal with the lawyer. Gang members attacked the lawyer as he was leaving a store in Feodosia, beat him with a metal rod and stabbed him several times. The lawyer survived - the doctors managed to help him in time. Four attackers were detained and sentenced to imprisonment. Earlier, the Ukrainian police emphasized that “irrefutable evidence has now emerged confirming the identity of the customer” in the murder of the lawyer. Kolomoisky was detained on September 2, 2023 and charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: fraud, as well as legalization and laundering of property obtained by criminal means. The second charge was followed by a third - of gaining access to funds and taking possession of someone else's property through abuse of official position. Related: Igor Kolomoisky 05/09/2024 Kolomoisky faces life imprisonment in case of contract murder Igor Kolomoisky 05/08/2024 A blow to the financial pyramid. Foreign creditors present Ukraine with an invoice Igor Kolomoisky 05/03/2024 Crime committed 10 years ago in Odessa will not go unpunished |
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