Members of Defense Industry Association posted bail for Pashynskyi. He said he was returning to work
Today, on February 27, member companies of the National Association of Defense Industry Enterprises posted bail for the head of the association, former MP Serhiy Pashynskyi.
Pashynskyi posted this on Facebook, Censor.NET reports.
"The member companies of the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries / NAUDI have just paid a full bail for me. I am now free. I am very grateful for this tremendous support, but at the same time I am very ashamed that the funds that were supposed to be used to produce weapons were used to bail me out on fake charges. I will work for every penny and get these funds back," he said.
Pashynskyi Pashynskyi also informs that he is returning to his duties: "More weapons, more ammunition. I hope I will not be distracted from these tasks too much! In addition, we have already filed a criminal complaint regarding the falsification of my alleged 'conversations'!"
Pashynskyi's Case
On February 12, former MP and chairman of the Association of Defense Enterprises Serhiy Pashynskyi reported that his home was searched by representatives of the SSU and NABU. The search was conducted in the case of the transfer of Kurchenko's fuel to the state in 2015.
The NABU and the SSU reported that they had exposed a criminal organization whose activities caused the state to suffer losses of UAH 967 million in 2014-2018. Former MP Pashynskyi and his business partner were served suspicion notices for misappropriation of oil products.
On February 13, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (HACCU) imposed a pre-trial restraint on businessman Serhiy Tyshchenko in the form of detention. Tyshchenko is a defendant in the case of the theft of Serhiy Kurchenko's oil products, which were subject to nationalization.
The NABU, SAPO and SSU suspect former MP Serhiy Pashynskyi of misappropriating and selling nearly 100,000 tons of oil products confiscated by the state from businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, which were supposed to be used for the needs of the army.
Public figures and veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war spoke out in defense of Serhiy Pashynskyi, head of the National Association of Defense Industry Enterprises of Ukraine, who headed the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense from 2014 to 2019. Ihor Lutsenko, a former MP, a veteran of the Ukrainian-Russian war, and a UAV company commander, said that the arrest of Serhiy Pashynskyi could complicate the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces, and the seizure of accounts of companies that are members of the National Association of Defense Industry Enterprises of Ukraine could stop this supply.
The Association of Defense Industry called for preventing Pashynskyi's removal from coordinating defense companies.
On February 21, the High Anti-Corruption Court began to choose a measure of restraint for former MP and head of the Association of Defense Enterprises Serhiy Pashynskyi. Prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office asked the court to impose a preventive measure on former MP Serhiy Pashynsky in the form of arrest with the possibility of bail in the amount of UAH 299,999,100.
On February 21, the High Anti-Corruption Court failed to choose a measure of restraint for Pashynskyi, so it postponed the hearing to February 23.
Sergiy Pashinsky's lawyers believe that the allegations on which their client is suspected are not supported by the case file. And the posts on the official pages of the NABU and the SAPO regarding this case are manipulative in nature to form the desired public opinion.
On February 26, the High Anti-Corruption Court imposed a pre-trial restraint on Pashynskyi in the form of detention until April 25 with bail set at UAH 272.5 million.
