HACC arrests ex-official in Isaienko corruption case

The High Anti-Corruption Court has taken into custody in absentia the former head of the Verkhovna Rada's staff, Eduard Baghdasaryan, who is suspected of involvement in the case of People's Deputy Dmytro Isayenko regarding an attempt to seize the property of the State Construction Combine.

As is known, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau has put Bagdasaryan on the wanted list. Therefore, NABU has requested that he be placed in absentia as a preventive measure.

The request of the senior detective of the NABU, approved by the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, in criminal proceedings - to be granted. To choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for the suspect (Baghdasaryan - ed.)

As a reminder, NABU and SAPO reported suspicions to People's Deputy Dmytro Isayenko and three other individuals, including the former director of the State Construction Plant, Yuriy Yurlov.

According to the investigation, in early 2020, the People's Deputy had a plan to seize the land on which the State Construction Plant was located in order to build a residential complex there. To do this, he colluded with employees of the State Construction Plant and the then deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada's Office, whose sphere of management included the aforementioned state-owned enterprise.

The former director of the state enterprise, contrary to the law and without the consent of the parliament, held an auction to conclude an investment agreement for the development of a land plot. The company controlled by the people's deputy who organized the scheme won. In the concluded investment agreement, the size of the state enterprise's shareholding was determined at about UAH 300 million. However, as established by NABU and SAPO, the real value of the plot and property was over UAH 525 million.

Subsequently, the suspects planned to demolish the buildings and destroy the plant's property, allegedly due to their obsolescence and malfunction, as well as to lay off employees of the state-owned enterprise. Their plans were thwarted by the seizure of the land plot imposed in August 2021 at the request of the NABU and the SAPO. Thanks to this, its development was prevented.

We will remind, earlier the Supreme Court of Justice removed the bracelet from the lawyer in the case of the men's departure.

We also wrote that the court reduced the bail for the director in the Kubrakov bribery case.