The High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) chose ex-deputy head of the Presidential Office Andrey Smirnov a preventive measure in the form of 10 million hryvnia bail. Smirnov is suspected of illegal enrichment.
This was reported by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP), without naming the name of the suspect. From the online broadcast it is clear that we are talking about Andrei Smirnov.
Preventive measure against the ex-deputy head of the police department
The SAPO indicates that the suspect is also entrusted with the following procedural duties:
They are currently watching
- attend every request to the detective, prosecutor and court;
- do not leave the city of Kyiv without the permission of the detective, prosecutor and court;
- inform the detective, prosecutor and court about changes in your place of residence and place of work;
- refrain from communicating with witnesses in the case;
- give your passport/passports for traveling abroad and other documents giving the right to leave Ukraine for storage to the appropriate government authority.
The Smirnov Case
Previously, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and SAPO informed the former deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (2019-2024) about suspicion of illegal enrichment.
NABU began an investigation against Smirnov after the publication of Ukrainskaya Pravda.
As law enforcement officers indicate, Smirnov acquired assets worth 17.1 million hryvnia, having savings and official income for this period of more than 1.3 million hryvnia.
Thus, the difference between the cost of the acquired property and the official’s funds amounted to 15.7 million hryvnia — We are talking about two cars (Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen), two motorcycles (Honda, BMW), three parking spaces in Kyiv, an apartment in Lviv and a plot of land in Transcarpathia.
