Finally home: Chernyshov announced his return to Ukraine
Oleksii Chernyshov, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Unity suspected of corruption, announced his return to Ukraine from a business trip abroad.
According to Censor.NET, Chernyshov wrote about this on his Facebook page.
"Finally home. A difficult but very important business trip (which, thanks to some media, has become unexpectedly popular) is over.
Tomorrow, I will return to work in the Cabinet of Ministers: we will implement the agreements in practice. In particular, we will work to maximise the existing support of our citizens in EU member states," he wrote.
Chernyshov also said that he would look into the "discrediting campaign" on the facts.
"The truth always wins," he added.
Earlier, MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak stated that on 19 June, the NABU and the SAPO sent an invitation to the Cabinet of Ministers' secretariat to Minister of National Unity Oleksii Chernyshov to appear for the presentation of the suspicion on 23 June.
The UP media outlet reported that the family of Oleksii Chernyshov, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Unity suspected of corruption, had left Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Unity Oleksii Chernyshov, suspected of corruption, is currently on a scheduled business trip abroad and is expected to return after the trip.
What is known about corruption in the Ministry of Reconstruction under Chernyshov?
Last week, the NABU served five people with a notice of suspicion in a case of corruption in the construction sector involving top government officials.
In particular, Vasyl Volodin, a member of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Maksym Horbatiuk, Chief Commercial Officer of Ukrgazvydobuvannya, Alla Sushon, former Director of Ukrkomunobbuvannya, and Serhii Kopystyr, a developer, were suspected of abuse of office, receiving and giving an undue advantage in a particularly large amount.
On 13 June, the HACCU arrested Horbatiuk with the possibility of posting UAH 25 million bail, on 17 June, the court arrested Volodin with an alternative of UAH 20 million bail, and on 20 June, the developer of Kopystyr was granted a preventive measure in the form of arrest with an alternative of UAH 100 million bail.
At the time of the crime, Volodin was the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Horbatiuk was an adviser to the head of the ministry, Oleksii Chernyshov, who later became the head of Naftogaz, where his associates also went to work. Chernyshov is now the head of the Ministry of National Unity and is abroad.
According to the investigation, the developer developed a scheme to illegally obtain a land plot in Kyiv for the construction of a residential complex. To do this, he turned to top officials of the Ministry of Regional Development, who created the conditions for the transfer of land to a state-controlled enterprise. The latter illegally entered into investment agreements with the construction company in question. At the same time, the land and the buildings on it were valued at almost five times cheaper, and the difference between this valuation and the market value exceeded UAH 1 billion.
According to the UP, NABU detectives planned to conduct a search of Chernyshov' s place a year ago, but it was cancelled at the request of the Bureau's director, Semen Kryvonos. At the same time, Chernyshov secretly met with Kryvonos, later explaining that the meeting was to discuss the anti-corruption programme of Naftogaz. Kryvonos himself denied any involvement in the cancellation of Chernyshov's searches.
