Court arrests ex-manager of VETEK arrested for two months

10:50, 14.06.2016 1 min read

Kyiv's Holosiyivsky district court has arrested former top manager of the East European Energy Company (VETEK) Andriy Koshel, who is suspect in the liquefied gas embezzlement criminal case, for two months, with an option to pay a bail of UAH 200 million.

"On June 14, 2016, the investigation judge of Kyiv's Holosiyivsky district court arrested Koshel, the head of a criminal group affiliated with VETEK for two months with an option to pay a bail of UAH 200 million," the public and media relations department of the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Tuesday.

Koshel was detained on the Ukrainian-Polish border on June 12. Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office reported that he was detained on suspicion of committing crimes under Part 4 of Article 28, Part 5 of Article 191 and Part 1 of Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (embezzlement of state property via abuse of office and creation of a criminal group.