The Supreme Court of Criminal Appeals refused to cancel Yermak’s electronic bracelet: the preventive measure was left unchanged

The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court has refused to grant the request of the defense of the former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak to change the preventive measure. This concerns, in particular, the abolition of the obligation to wear an electronic monitoring device.
The investigative judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court made the corresponding decision on June 29. The court found no grounds for mitigating the procedural obligations that were imposed on the suspect after posting bail.

As a reminder, earlier the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court chose Yermak as a preventive measure in the form of detention with the alternative of posting bail in the amount of 140 million hryvnias. After posting this amount, the suspect was released from the pre-trial detention center, but remained under a number of restrictions, including the obligation to wear an electronic bracelet.

The former head of the OP is charged with committing a criminal offense under Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – legalization of property obtained by criminal means.

Yermak’s case remains one of the most resonant in the field of anti-corruption justice, and its further consideration is in the focus of public attention.