Court arrests ex-chief of State Food-Grain Corporation Tomilenko, setting bail at UAH 5 mln
Kyiv's appeal court has decided to arrest former acting Board Chairman of State Food-Grain Corporation of Ukraine Valeriy Tomilenko for 60 days, and has set bail at UAH 5 million.
According to a posting on the court's website, pre-trial detention would end on September 23. The bail can be paid by an individual or a company.
As reported, detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) on July 26 detained Tomilenko along with the chairman of the board of PJSC Rokytne grain enterprise.
The detainees are suspected of creating a corrupt scheme, which caused the embezzlement of about UAH 50 million in state funds.
NABU detectives say that the two signed a contract on the supply of 16,600 tonnes of third-grade maize to the corporation on the terms of full prepayment.
"Both parties knew that the said commodity was de facto not available. The grain enterprise was not going to fulfill the contract. But the State Food and Grain Corporation transferred about UAH 50 million in budget funds to the enterprise's account for the commodity, which has not been supplied," the NABU said.
Tomilenko was under house arrest before the appeals court made its ruling.