Solomensky court in Kiev denied the protection of former people's deputy Nikolai Martynenko in the diversion of investigating judge Alexander Bobrovnik, who will consider the petition for the election of a preventive measure to the suspect.

This decision was announced after the judge returned from the meeting room.

The lawyers drew attention to the fact that the judge of the system of automatic distribution of production regularly selects Bobrovnik's judge to review the affairs of the National Academy of Sciences, and also called the "inadequate" amount of a pledge of 300 million hryvnias insisted by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.

In the evening of April 20, detainees of the National Security Service detained former People's Deputy Nikolai Martynenko.

The detention was carried out as part of the investigation of the case on the procurement of the VostGOK uranium concentrate of uranium through the Austrian gasket. According to the investigation, former member of the parliamentary faction of the "Popular Front" Nikolai Martynenko is an accomplice in embezzling more than 17 million dollars of the state enterprise "Eastern Mining and Processing Plant".

SAP head Nazar Kholodnitsky said that the prosecution will insist on Martynenko's arrest with an alternative to making 300 million hryvnia collateral.