Court grants bail to defendant in Solskiy case
7 May 2024 18:26
The High Anti-Corruption Court has granted bail in the amount of UAH 5.14 million to Mykhailo Stadnik, who is suspected by the NABU and SAPO of crimes in the case of Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solskyi. The court ruled on 2 May, reports
The document does not mention the name of the suspect, but, according to the publication, it is Stadnik.
“The motion is partially granted. To apply to the suspect (Mikhail Stadnik – ed.) a preventive measure in the form of bail in the amount of 1,700 times the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons, which is UAH 5,147,600,”
– reads the court decision.
Under the terms of bail, the defendant is obliged to
- appear in court at every request;
- not to leave Kyiv region (except for Kyiv) without permission;
- report changes in his place of residence and place of work;
- refrain from communicating with other suspects in criminal proceedings, witnesses and other persons;
- hand over their passports for safekeeping;
- wear an electronic bracelet.
Solsky’s case
Law enforcement agencies accuse Solsky of seizing state land worth UAH 291 million and attempting to seize another UAH 190 million.
The minister, for his part, said that this relates to the period from 2017 to 2018, when he was practising law. Solsky also said that the case is about a dispute between state-owned enterprises and individuals who were legally transferred land.
Solsky has been in office since March 2022.
on 25 April, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, said that the Parliament had received a letter of resignation from the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mykola Solskyi.
Stefanchuk noted that the letter would be considered at one of the next plenary sessions of the parliament.
