The Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev changed the measure of restraint to the former head of Ukrtatnafta Ruslan Lyapko in custody with the possibility of bail, said Alexander Lemenov, Chairman of the Board of StateWatch.

According to him, Lyapka was assigned to be kept in a pre-trial detention center for a month, with the possibility of bailing 200 million hryvnias..

Ruslan Lyapko was informed of the suspicion by detectives from the Economic Security Bureau in early February, after law enforcement agencies announced the exposure of Ukrtatnafta's " Acting ex-First Deputy Chairman of the Board of PJSC Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchug Oil Refinery) is suspected of fraud to deliberately evade payment of UAH 605.9 million of excise tax.

Last September ZN. UA reported that NABU detectives conducted a search at Igor Kolomoisky, during which they seized documents, a gadget, and downloaded its contents. The search concerned the case of the seizure of property and funds of the Ukrnafta company for almost UAH 13 billion in 2015 prices..

At that moment, Igor Kolomoisky was not involved in this case as a defendant, he was not suspected. But he is a co-owner of Ukrnafta. And shortly before that, SAPO prosecutors and NABU detectives announced suspicions of financial fraud by a number of company officials.

In November 2022, by decree of President Volodymyr Zelensky, this enterprise was forcibly nationalized from the owners in the interests of the state and placed under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

At the same time, the Supervisory Board of Ukrnafta included persons associated with the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak.. Sergey Koretsky was appointed head of Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta.

Note that as of January 1, 2022, the company's tax debt amounted to about 2.9 billion. UAH.

Are there any chances for the investigation of cases around the companies of Igor Kolomoisky, in addition to the picture, to come up with results, analyzed for ZN. UA Igor Maskalevich in the article "