The High Anti-Corruption Court has extended the detention of three defendants in the Fistal case
This has been reported by “Slovo i Dilo”, citing rulings by the High Anti-Corruption Court.
The High Anti-Corruption Court has extended until 17 May the period of restrictions imposed on Yuriy Vasilenko, director of Ortompex LLC, who is suspected of involvement in a criminal organisation linked to the Herman Fistal case. The court issued the relevant ruling on 17 March.
Previously, the anti-corruption court had remanded Vasilenko in custody with an alternative bail of 25.73 million hryvnias. After this sum was paid, a number of procedural obligations were imposed on him: to appear upon first request, to report any change of residence or employment, to refrain from communicating with persons specified in the investigating judge’s ruling, not to visit the premises listed in the decision, and to surrender his foreign passports for safekeeping.
What the court decided
The prosecutor from the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested that the term of these obligations be extended. The court granted the request.
In addition, the High Anti-Corruption Court extended until 19 May the obligations imposed on Dmytro Kaliushchenko, the former secretary of the tender committee at the National Cancer Institute. The same list of procedural restrictions was maintained for him, and he was also specifically prohibited from leaving the boundaries of Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
The court also extended the duration of the obligations imposed on Bohdan Borisyuk, head of the Department of Lung and Mediastinal Tumours at the National Cancer Institute, until 19 May. He has been subject to the same list of obligations as Vasylenko.
According to the investigation, this concerns the activities of a criminal organisation that profited from the National Cancer Institute’s procurement. The NABU and the SAPO believe that the de facto leader of the largest group of medical equipment suppliers, comprising over 300 company representatives, established a criminal organisation and recruited representatives of affiliated firms and NCI officials into it.
The investigation claims that in 2021–2022, during the procurement of medical equipment as part of the project “Creation of a modern clinical base for the treatment of oncological diseases at the National Cancer Institute”, the participants in the scheme misappropriated funds amounting to over 231 million hryvnias.
It should be recalled that the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) partially upheld the appeal lodged by the defence team of former State Fiscal Service head Roman Nasirov regarding his sentence in the case concerning his involvement in Onishchenko’s “gas scheme”.
