Kolomoisky-linked lawyer detained in Kyiv over $100,000 scheme
The SSU and the police have exposed a lawyer in the capital who, according to investigators, was demanding $100,000 from entrepreneurs. For this amount, he promised to help in "resolving" tax issues.
Law enforcement officers are not naming the lawyer, but media reports indicate that he is Serhiy Stetsyuk, an assistant and lawyer for businessman Ihor Kolomoisky.
According to the case materials, the defendant claimed to the management of one of the capital's companies that he had insider information about violations in their accounting. He intimidated the businessmen that if they refused to pay the "ransom", the company would have to pay fines of almost a billion hryvnias to the state budget.
Stetsyuk enlisted the help of an acquaintance to transfer the money. Law enforcement officers gradually documented the criminal actions and conducted searches at the locations of the suspects.
Serhiy Stetsyuk and his accomplice were informed of suspicion under the article on fraud and aiding and abetting fraud, committed on a particularly large scale under martial law (Part 5 of Article 190 and Part 5 of Article 27 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv chose a preventive measure for the lawyer - detention with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of 4 million 239 thousand hryvnias.
It was previously reported that employees of the Strategic Investigations Department of the National Police, together with the counterintelligence of the SSU, detained lawyer Yuriy Panchuk and his accomplice in Lviv for a bribe of $2,000.
In addition, the AC HACC left unchanged the preventive measure in the form of a bail of UAH 242,240 with the imposition of duties, applied to lawyer Ruslan Fedynyak.
