Court imposes a measure of restraint on MP Klochko
10 May 2024 14:58
The High Anti-Corruption Court has imposed a preventive measure on MP Andriy Klochko, who is suspected of illicit enrichment. This was reported by the press service of the HACC, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
“The investigating judge upheld the position of the SAPO prosecutor and imposed a measure of restraint in the form of UAH 12 million bail on the current MP of Ukraine, who is suspected of illicit enrichment of more than UAH 11 million,”
– the statement said.
The suspect is also subject to the following procedural obligations
- to appear at every request of the detective, prosecutor and court
- not to leave the city of Kyiv without the permission of the detective, prosecutor and court
- notify the detective, the prosecutor and the court of any changes in their place of residence and place of work;
- refrain from communicating with witnesses in the case
- to deposit their passport/passports for travelling abroad and other documents entitling them to leave Ukraine and enter Ukraine with the relevant state authority.
The bail must be posted no later than five days from the date of imposition of the preventive measure. The term of the obligations imposed on the suspect is until 10.07.2024.
According to the investigation, in 2020-2021, the MP acquired assets worth UAH 25 million – five apartments in Kyiv, three land plots in Kyiv region, two non-residential premises, as well as Tesla and Mersedes-Benz cars.
The MP registered the majority of the acquired property in the names of his close relatives, retaining the right to dispose of it in full.
However, it turned out that neither his and his wife’s official income and savings during this period, nor the income of his relatives was sufficient to purchase this property, the NABU said.
The difference between the cost of the purchased property and Klochko’s funds is UAH 11 million.
The crime was uncovered after the publication of journalistic investigations, in particular by the Bihus.Info team, and with the assistance of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption.
Bihus.Info published its investigation into Klochko on 7 September 2021. At that time, journalists wrote that the MP’s 70-year-old mother Natalia had become the owner of two apartments in Kyiv, a house, land and a car over the past two years. The market value of this property is approximately UAH 14.5 million, and the start of the purchases coincided with Klochko’s election to the Verkhovna Rada. At the same time, the MP received UAH 20,000 in monthly compensation from the state for renting a house in Kyiv.
The next day, the MP stated on his Facebook page that his sister, who owns a medical business, helps his mother, and her husband heads a branch of an international company.
