Kyiv’s High Anti-Corruption Court has ordered the arrest of Andriy Yermak, the former head of the Ukrainian presidential office, but offered him the option of posting bail of 140 million hryvnias ($3.2 million).
Yermak said he did not have that kind of money. His lawyer would discuss the matter with his friends and acquaintances, he said.
Yermak is a suspect in a case involving the laundering of 460 million hryvnias ($10 million) through the construction of an upscale complex called “Dynasty” outside Kyiv.
He has denied wrongdoing. “I reject all the charges,” he said at a court hearing on May 12. His lawyer said the prosecution’s case rested on assumptions.
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