Measure of restraint for Medvedchuk changed to arrest with bail option

The prosecutor's office has handed over a petition to Viktor Medvedchuk, an MP from the Opposition Platform – For Life party, on the measure of restraint for him changed from house arrest to arrest with the possibility of posting bail, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office has told Ukrinform.

"The suspect MP was handed a petition on a measure of restraint chosen for him in the form of arrest with the alternative of posting UAH 1 billion bail," the press service said.

According to the investigation files, Medvedchuk persuaded the leadership of Ukraine to deliver fuel from "LPR" and "DPR" and pay directly to the leaders of terrorist organizations.

According to Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, in 2015, at least UAH 200 million was transferred, cashed out, and distributed to the advantage of "LPR" and "DPR" for coal supplies from the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions and for the implementation of the overall criminal plan to promote their activities, not taking into account the funds paid in cash, out of the planned more than UAH 3.16 billion.

Venediktova said that the Prosecutor General's Office would ask the court to arrest Medvedchuk with an alternative of paying UAH 1 billion bail.

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