SAPO to ask court to arrest Tatarov with alternative bail of UAH 10 mln 2 min read
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor s Office (SAPO) handed Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleh Tatarov a request to elect him a preventive measure in the form of detention with an alternative to bail of UAH 10 million, the SAPO told Interfax-Ukraine. Tatarov has been handed today a petition to choose a preventive measure, the prosecutor s office said, noting that the prosecutor s office would ask for arrest with the alternative of paying a bail in the amount of UAH 10 million.
The motion will be considered by the High Anti-Corruption Court. The date of consideration is not known yet.
Headquarter of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine in Kyiv. Photo: Mr Rosewater (cc) wikimedia.org
Just as in the days of Yanukovych, corruption still remains a difficult issue in Ukraine. In the latest corruption perception rankings by Transparency International, Ukraine scored only 30 points out of a possible 100. The country ranks 126th in the world, close to Azerbaijan, Djibouti and Kyrgyzstan. According to an opinion poll conducted by the Social Monitoring Centre in November, 63.6 per cent of Ukrainians believe that corruption is still one of the country’s major problems.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff, Oleh Tatarov, has requested that he be temporarily relieved of his official duties, just days after he was issued a notice of suspicion on bribery charges.
Tatarov made the request due to the “significant societal resonance” of his case and in order to avoid “any manipulative interpretations,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the President’s Office, told the Ukrainska Pravda news outlet on Dec. 21.
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The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office on Dec. 18 authorized a notice of suspicion for Oleh Tatarov, deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration, according to a Kyiv Post source close to the investigation, who wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. Several Ukrainian media outlets reported the same, citing their sources.
The signing of the notice came as the culmination of the weeks-long conflict between Tatarov and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) that is investigating him on bribery charges.
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