Kyiv construction executive Anatoliy Voitsekhovsky suspected of the UAH 12.5 million tax evasion and creation of a criminal group, is staying in Ukraine and cooperating with investigators, the spokesperson of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Larysa Sargan has said.
"After paying a bail of UAH 14 million the businessman Voitsekhovsky is staying in Ukraine and cooperating with investigators," she wrote on her Facebook page on Monday.
An investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office denied the fact of alleged escape of the businessman to Russia after information from MP Dmytro Bilotserkovets appeared.
"Today in the morning he personally talked to him. Prosecutor General's Office is working," Sargan wrote.
The PGO on July 15 indicted and arrested Voitsekhovsky for allegedly evading taxes in the amount of UAH 12.5 million, creating a criminal group and other crimes.
The PGO in 2015 and 2016, with the aim of objectively investigating the case, combined 46 criminal investigations involving the suspect. The cases involved the activities of Voitsekhovsky dating back as far as November 2012.
The PGO said it suspected Voitsekhovsky and members of a criminal group of acquiring stakes in the charter capital of a dozen enterprises from 2004 to 2013 (in 2014 the stakes were re-registered to fake companies). With the assistance of these companies, the criminal group took possession of land plots for the construction of 40 structures without the required permits with investor funding. Several of these structures were built on the basis of forged court decisions and illegally registered in the State Real Estate Registry.
The investigation into the seizure of 40 land plots and construction on these sites is in progress.
The UAH 14 million bail was paid for Voitsekhovsky on July 27.
