Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has granted the investigation's request on taking former State Emergency Situations Service chief Serhiy Bochkovsky into custody before trial for two months, setting a UAH 1.184 million bail, Judge Ruslan Kozlov said at a court hearing on Saturday.
The amount of bail is equal to the sum of a damage done by Bochkovsky, according to the investigation.
As earlier reported, Bochkovsky and his deputy Vasyl Stoyetsky were arrested at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday on suspicion of corruption and were immediately fired as head and deputy head of the State Service for Emergency Situations.
The Office of the Prosecutor General has filed an appeal with Kyiv's Pechersky District Court against their release but later asked the court to scrap the appeal. Judge Iryna Lytvynova satisfied the request, arguing there was not enough evidence for the two men to be kept behind bars.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Friday Prosecutor General's office will seek a court order on Saturday to extend the detention term for two former senior government figures who are suspected of corruption and whose current 72-hour term of custody expires at noon that day.
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