“Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky refuses to pay bail in order to be released, because he considers it a racket. As UNIAN reports, Kolomoiskyi said this on September 25 at a meeting of the Shevchenko district court of Kyiv, which refused to change the preventive measure for the businessman from bail in the amount of 1 billion 877 million 360 thousand hryvnias to house arrest or personal commitment. Appropriate”, — write on: ua.news
Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky refuses to pay bail in order to be released, because he considers it a racket.
As UNIAN reports, Kolomoiskyi said this on September 25 at a meeting of the Shevchenko district court of Kyiv, which refused to change the preventive measure for the businessman from bail in the amount of 1 billion 877 million 360 thousand hryvnias to house arrest or personal commitment.
The corresponding decision was announced by the investigative judge Oleksiy Glyan, who informed that this decision on the refusal to grant the petition to change the preventive measure is not subject to appeal.
During the court session, Kolomoiskyi explained why he refused to pay the bail set by the court in the amount of 1 billion 877 million 360 thousand hryvnias.
“I believe that this is a criminal racket that comes from the very top. And from the very beginning I was told that there would be 3 billion or something, even before I was put in prison. High-ranking SBU employees warned me that there would be a billion dollar bail,” Kolomoisky emphasized.
The businessman noted that the amount of the pledge has changed over the last year from about 3.9 billion to 1.8 billion hryvnias.
“The most important task is that I sit in prison. Here I am sitting,” explained Kolomoiskyi.
According to him, the refusal to pay a deposit is a principled position.
“Because I believe that this is a racket at the state level with the use of all power structures, including the judiciary. They took me as a hostage, put me in prison and demanded money,” Kolomoisky stressed.
In turn, lawyer Vyacheslav Kraglevych reminded that the final term of Kolomoiskyi’s detention was supposed to end on September 2, 2024, but the prosecution submitted a motion to change the preventive measure from detention to bail.
At the same time, Kraglevych noted that Kolomoiskyi will not pay any amount of bail that will be determined by the court.
“We ask to change this preventive measure, which is currently established, from bail, respectively, to house arrest… or to establish a personal obligation accordingly,” Kraglevych appealed to the court.
In turn, the lawyer Oleksandr Lysak emphasized that the bail was not paid because it was excessive. According to him, Kolomoisky does not consider it necessary to contribute any funds, because there is no reasonable suspicion and there are no risks, on the basis of which the suspicion was announced.
In addition, the lawyer Oleh Pushkar noted that during the last year, during the detention of Kolomoiskyi, no risk, which the prosecution says, was justified. In particular, Kolomoisky did not try to hide, did not influence anyone, did not destroy any documents.
Earlier we wrote that oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi’s preventive measure was changed from detention to bail in the amount of more than 1.8 billion hryvnias. But even if he makes them, he will not be able to leave the pre-trial detention center because of the current arrest in another case against him.
Recently, the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal of the city of Kyiv confirmed the impossibility of returning the state-owned “PrivatBank” to its former owner Ihor Kolomoiskyi.
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