The Solomiansky District Court of Kyiv has ordered independent MP Boryslav Rozenblat to wear an electronic bracelet until Dec. 18, 2017, the Ukrayinska Pravda online magazine reported.
According to the publication, this decision on Oct.20 was made by Judge Oleksandr Bobrovnyk.
In addition, the court ordered Rozenblat not to leave Kyiv and Zhytomyr without permission of investigators and court, to refrain from communicating with a number of witnesses and suspects, to hand over all foreign-travel passports.
“The ruling may be appealed within five days,” Bobrovnyk added.
Previously, Rozenblat had been required to wear an electronic bracelet until Oct.16. Ukraine’s Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) has applied for the measure to be extended.
As reported, in June, Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Artem Sytnyk reported a scheme of illegal amber mining, in which MP Rozenblat and MP Maksym Poliakov of the People’s Front faction were involved. The amount of received bribes exceeded Hr 300 000.
On June 21, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko requested the parliament should give its consent to prosecution, detention and arrest of these two parliamentarians.
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested Hr 10 million bail as a preventive measure for Rozenblat.
On Oct.20, detectives from Ukraine’s National Anti-corruption Bureau (NABU) said they prevented Rozenblat from leaving Ukraine with evidence important to the so-called ‘amber case’ in which he has been implicated, as well as with jewels and money received in suspected illegal payments.
NABU said its agents searched the plane Rozenblat had boarded pursuant to Part 3 of Article 233 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code to preserve items that may be used as evidence in the ‘amber case.’ NABU added that Rozenblat himself was not detained.
Investigators said Rozenblat intended to take abroad communications equipment that may contain evidence of concealment of committed crimes, evidence and valuable items.
