Pechersky District Court of Kyiv has detained former Justice Minister Olena Lukash for two months and set bail at UAH 5 million.

This decision was announced by Pechersky court judge Roman Novak.

"[The court has ruled] to apply a preventive measure in the form of detention with the possibility of release on bail of UAH 5.116 million," the judge said.

Lukash said that her friends will post her bail and she will eventually be acquitted.

According to the ruling, Lukash’s bail should be paid within five days.

As reported, on Thursday, November 5, the Security Service of Ukraine detained former justice minister Olena Lukash.

The deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine on November 5, 2015, notified Lukash that she is suspected of committing crimes under part 5 of Article 191 and part 2 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code, which include the misappropriation of $2.5 million of the state budget of Ukraine at the time of her tenure as the justice minister of Ukraine and committing forgery that resulted in grave consequences.

At a briefing on November 5, a prosecutor at the Prosecutor General's Office, Vladyslav Kutsenko, said that in the summer and autumn of 2013, Lukash, abusing his official duties as the justice minister, by prior agreement with the other members of the Justice Ministry, "held tender procedures as part of the implementation of the national program on the adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU legislation and when carrying out this program seized more than UAH 2.5 million.

Kutsenko also stressed that this is only one of the episodes, which is investigated. Also, episodes related to the actions of the regime of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych will be probed.

Later on Thursday, Lukash said that there was no arrest and she was on the territory of Ukraine all this time.

Lukash served as justice minister in the government led by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov in 2013-2014. She was dismissed on February 27, 2014.

The PGO demanded on February 28, 2014 that the Interior Ministry and SBU detain Lukash within 10 days on suspicion of responsibility for shooting activists on Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) in Kyiv from February 18 to 22.

The European Union and Canada announced in March 2014 that Lukash was on a list of high-ranking Ukrainian officials subject to financial sanctions.

On May 28, 2015, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office charged Lukash with large-scale collusive misappropriation of public funds through an abuse of office committed by a group and forgery by an official that led to grave consequences.

The SBU put Lukash on the wanted list on September 10, 2015. Media said that Lukash was in Russia.