Today, on November 21, the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court decided to keep Tetiana Krupa in custody with an alternative of bail in the amount of UAH 300 million. The term of detention is until December 3, 2024. UNN reports this with reference to Suspilne.
If bail is granted, the court ordered Tatiana Krupa to fulfill the following obligations: to appear when summoned by the investigator, prosecutor and court, to refrain from communicating with employees of the Medical and Social Expert Commission and people who have applied to the MSEC on issues related to this proceeding. In addition, they should report any change of residence, hand over their passport and other documents for traveling abroad.
Tetiana Krupa participated in the court hearing via video link. Her defense lawyers asked to close the hearing in the part that could relate to personal data and health.
According to the investigation, prosecutor Vadym Sydorenko said, 22 searches were conducted, during which Tatiana Krupa's property was seized. The funds were also seized and arrested. In addition, more than 150 pieces of real estate registered to legal entities (companies) were seized.
The prosecutor noted that the funds found during the search were not all the assets that the investigation had found.
During the court session, it became known that Krupa has the title of "honored doctor of Ukraine".
Krupa's lawyer said that the decision of the Pechersk District Court was made with violations. According to her, this decision should have been made by the HACC. Therefore, she asked to cancel the ruling made by the Pechersk court and make a ruling in the HACC.
Керівницю Хмельницького МСЕК плануюють виключити зі складу депутатів облради07.10.24, 16:13
In addition, Tetyana Krupa's lawyer said that all of her client's funds were seized and Krupa's family was unable to deposit or borrow them.
"According to the Criminal Procedure Code, bail should not exceed 80 subsistence minimums, which is about 250 thousand hryvnias. Whereas for her, the bail is much higher (500 million 1528 hryvnias)," the defense lawyer says.
The lawyer also believes that Krupa cannot be held in custody due to her health condition. According to the defense lawyer, she should be released on bail.
According to another lawyer of Tetiana Krupa, Angelika Moiseeva, the serving of the notice of suspicion and detention took place with violations and without evidence. The allegation is that Krupa threw bags of money out the window.
"The investigation did not establish the origin and income of Tetiana Krupa and did not take into account the fact that she did not file a declaration for 2024," said Anzhelika Moiseeva.
The judge explained that the prosecution had seized the assets, deducted all the declared income and the maximum possible income, leaving 137 million. When the judge asked the defense counsel if she could explain where the money came from, she said she could not.
However, the lawyer believes that everything stated in the indictment is an assumption of the prosecutor.
"All the risks are unfounded and unproven. After all, there is no evidence of her influence on witnesses, the possibility of bribing participants in the case, or connections with law enforcement agencies. In particular, we are talking about traveling abroad. Because Tetiana Krupa is a member of parliament, she cannot leave the territory of Ukraine without permission," said Anzhelika Moiseeva.
The defense lawyer also noted that the obligations and restrictions imposed on Krupa in the event of bail violate the law.
Krupa asked the judges to choose a preventive measure not related to detention, but on bail with an adequate amount.
Given that all the funds have been seized, even five million hryvnias is too much for me.
After that, the accused, who participated via video link, burst into tears, Suspilne reports.
The defense asked the judges to cancel the ruling of the court of first instance and to choose a preventive measure for Tatyana Krupa not related to her detention, or to set bail in a reasonable amount, as provided for in Article 172 of the CPC .
As a reminder, on October 7, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv imposed a preventive measure on Tatiana Krupa in the form of detention until December 3 with the possibility of bail in the amount of UAH 500 million 1528. Her lawyer Anzhelika Moiseeva filed an appeal against the decision of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv.
Currently, Tetiana Krupa, whose family, among other things, owns 30 properties in Khmelnytskyi, Lviv and Kyiv and has real estate abroad in Austria, Spain and Turkey, is being held in a regular cell in the Kyiv pre-trial detention center for four people.
Стефанчук заперечує родинні зв'язки з керівницею Хмельницької МСЕК Крупою22.10.24, 19:41