The Solomiansky District Court in Kyiv took into custody the deputy chairman of the board of Oschadbank, Iryna Zemtsova, who is suspected of complicity in the embezzlement of $20 million from the state bank.
This ruling was handed down on Thursday, October 25, Ukrayinska Pravda reports, citing the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, Valentyn Musiyaka.
According to the official, the anti-corruption prosecutor's office asked the court to take Zemtsova into custody with a UAH 50 million bail, but the judge tuned it down to UAH 7 million.
Musiyaka noted that if the suspect is bailed out, Zemtsova will have to wear an ankle e-bracelet and hand over her travel documents. She is also banned from communicating with other persons involved in the case.
Later, SAPO chief Nazar Kholodnitsky wrote on Facebook that as of 16:00, apart from Zemtsova, four other suspects were taken into custody: a member of the Bank’s Corporate Business Department (with a UAH 1.5 million bail); head of CJSC Kreativ (a UAH 2 million bail); and 2 employees of PJSC Kreativ Group (with a UAH 2.55 million bail).
As UNIAN reported earlier, on October 23, detectives of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine detained ten persons suspected of misappropriating $20 million from the state-owned Oschadbank.
