Overview

• Investigating judge at the High Anti-Corruption Court reduced former Supreme Court deputy Bohdan Lviv’s bail from ₴302.8 million to ₴20 million, leaving his procedural obligations unchanged.
• Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office says it will challenge the decision after prosecutors had requested pre-trial detention instead of a lower bail.
• The court rejected proposed sureties from former High Administrative Court head Oleksandr Nechitailo and ex–High Council of Justice chair Volodymyr Hovorukha.
• Lviv is accused of aiding the takeover of the Ukrainian section of the Samara–West oil-products pipeline and influencing judges over its 2017 transfer to a company linked to Viktor Medvedchuk; the probe moved from the SBU to NABU in June.
• In a separate Ukrinmash case, the VAKS Appellate Chamber converted ₴3,404,000 in bail to state revenue, declared the former deputy general director internationally wanted, and set pre-trial detention to apply upon capture in an embezzlement scheme alleged to have caused nearly ₴3.5 million in losses that is now under appeal.