OGP: the court set a bail of over 33 million hryvnias for Shufrych

The Kyiv Court of Appeals has appointed a bail of more than 33 million hryvnias for People’s Deputy Nestor Shufrych, who is suspected of high treason, as an alternative to detention, the Prosecutor General’s Office informed RFE/RL.

The OGP reported that bail has not been posted and Shufrych is in custody.

On September 15, 2023, the court for the first time chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for Nestor Shufrych, who is suspected of high treason.

The Security Service reported that, together with the State Bureau of Investigation and the Prosecutor General’s Office, it “gathered a well-argued evidence base on the anti-Ukrainian activities” of the current People’s Deputy Nestor Shufrych.

According to the SBU, Shufrych “closely cooperated and carried out the tasks of former NSDC secretary Volodymyr Sivkovich, an FSB agent whose task is to coordinate the Russian agency in Ukraine.”

“One of Shufrych’s main tasks was subversive activity in the information sphere. He systematically spread the Kremlin’s narratives that the Ukrainian state is a supposedly artificial entity, that Ukraine and Russia have a single history, and that Ukrainians and Russians are supposedly “one nation.” In this way, Shufrych tried to develop pro-Russian sentiments in Ukrainian society,” the SBU said.