The HACC investigating judge changed the preventive measure applied to the former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, who is suspected of money laundering, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office reported on Monday, UNN writes.
On August 10, 2026, the investigating judge partially granted a motion by the defense lawyers of the former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, who is suspected of laundering property obtained through criminal means during the construction of a private cottage settlement near Kyiv, and changed the procedural obligations previously imposed on him
The grounds for the defense’s submission of such a motion to the court, it was noted, "were the simultaneous receipt by the SAPO and NABU of a number of letters from commanders of military units that were similar in content and written in the suspect’s interests."
"Thus, following a motion by the defense, the investigating judge expanded the restrictions on the suspect’s travel to include a number of regions, the need to travel to which the suspect justified by his participation in a project providing legal assistance to servicemen. Specifically, the obligation not to leave the city of Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast without the permission of the detective, prosecutor, or court was replaced with an obligation not to leave, without such permission, the boundaries of the city of Kyiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson oblasts, with the possibility of transiting through other oblasts."
The prosecutor, as stated, "objected to granting the motion because the obligations previously imposed on the suspect in connection with the application of the preventive measure did not impede the implementation of the project in which he performs the role of a manager, rather than a lawyer directly providing legal assistance."
The defense also asked that the obligation to wear an electronic monitoring device be lifted from the suspect. The investigating judge refused to grant this request
It should be recalled
On May 14, 2026, a HACC judge ordered the former head of the OP, Yermak, to be held in custody with the possibility of bail set at UAH 140 million. SAPO prosecutors had requested that the amount be set at UAH 180 million.
Yermak is suspected in a case involving the laundering of UAH 460 million in an elite construction project near Kyiv.
On May 18, Yermak officially was released from the pretrial detention center, where he had spent almost three days. Bail of UAH 140 million was posted for him.