Former Deputy Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons Yuriy Hrymchak said the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has closed a case against him.
“[…] the case opened by NABU against me under Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine has been closed over the absence of corpus delicti,” Hrymchak said, adding that he would provide the corresponding report later when his lawyers received the whole package of documents.
On January 30, Hrymchak was released from custody and placed under house arrest.
On August 14, 2019, NABU and SBU, under the procedural leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office, detained Hrymchak and his accomplice for extorting USD 1.1m bribes. They were detained red-handed while receiving part of the funds (USD 480,000).
According to law enforcement agencies, Hrymchak was suspected of committing a crime under part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud committed on an especially large scale or by an organized group). At that time, Attorney General Yurii Lutsenko said that Hrymchak “and his assistants demanded money for influencing the decisions of the courts and officials of the Ministry of Culture for making custom-made decisions.”
On October 22, 2019, the Prosecutor General’s Office changed Hrymchak’s suspicion of abuse of influence (part 2 of Article 28, part 3 of Article 369) and announced its intentions to transfer the case to NABU.
On December 20, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court reduced the bail to Hrymchak three times from UAH 6m to UAH 2m.
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