For the arrested mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, they paid the bail required for his release in the amount of 13.42 million hryvnias, reports the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. After that, he left prison.
Trukhanov was charged with the obligation to arrive at each request to the court, not to leave the territory of Ukraine without the permission of the court, to notify the court of a change of place of residence and to work, to refrain from communicating with persons specified in the court order, to deposit a passport and to wear an electronic bracelet.
Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) took Trukhanov into custody on May 4 for failing to post bail amounting to 30.866 million hryvnia ($844,000). At the same time, the court left an alternative: a promise of more than 13 million UAH (about $380,000).
The mayor of Odessa is accused of having set up a scheme to acquire the building of the former Krayan factory in communal ownership at a double price. Trukhanov was arrested at Kiev airport in February 2018. In August 2022, he spoke of the need to negotiate with Russia and move away from “wall to wall logic”.
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