The judge of the Solomiansky District Court of Kyiv, Viktor Fomin, on May 4 passed a resolution on to arrest the apartments, parking spaces and shares belonging to the son of Interior Minister Oleksandr Avakov, the Judicial Reporter online resource has reported.

There is yet no text of the judgment in the database of court rulings, and according to the Internet resource it applies to three parking slots and an apartment in Kyiv, an apartment in Kharkiv and 43.7% of shares in the PJSC Investor.

The Interfax-Ukraine agency has not yet been able to receive a comment from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) on this matter.

According to the court rulings' database, similar rulings about the arrest of assets of Oleksandr Avakov were already passed by the judges of the Solomiansky court Vitaliy Ukrainets and Olena Mozolevskaon on November 2, 2017 and February 23, 2018, respectively, following the petition of NABU detective Andriy Melnyk, but then there were no shares of PJSC Investor on the list.

The first time the ruling to arrest the assets was abolished by the ruling of the panel of judges of the court chamber to review criminal cases of Kyiv Court of Appeals dated December 19, 2017, and therefore the property was not under arrest from November 2, 2017 to February 23.

The second time the arrest was canceled by the ruling of the judge of the Solomiansky court, Liudmyla Kyziun, on April 17 of this year, who came to the conclusion that the arrest was unjustified and noted that the suspect had not previously taken measures to alienate this property.

As reported, the NABU is investigating the criminal proceeding about embezzling more than UAH 14 million for the purchase of backpacks for the needs of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry in late 2014 - early 2015. Detectives find out the circumstances associated with the forgery of warehouse documents for the delivered backpacks.

Two individuals detained on October 31 as part of the investigation into the so-called 'backpack case' were notified on the same day of suspicion of committing a crime under Part 5, Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (appropriation, embezzlement or taking possession of property through abuse of power). These two are former Deputy Interior Minister Serhiy Chebotar and Oleksandr Avakov, the son of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.

Later NABU detectives notified the third detainee of suspicion in committing a crime during the purchase of backpacks for the Interior Ministry in late 2014 and early 2015. Bloc of Petro Poroshenko MP Serhiy Leschenko said earlier, referring to his own sources, that NABU detectives had detained in Kharkiv head of IT firm Turboseo Volodymyr Lytvyn, who also runs a company that had to produce a batch of backpacks for the Interior Ministry.

On November 1, Solomiansky District Court of Kyiv chose for Oleksandr Avakov and two other defendants of the 'backpacks case' the measure of restraint in the form of a personal obligation.