The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has extended the detention of businessman Roman Hrynkevych, the son of Ihor Hrynkevych, who, along with his father, is suspected of involvement in corruption in the Ministry of Defence. This was reported by the Kyiv TV channel, according to Komersant ukrainskyi
According to the TV channel, the term of detention for Hrynkevych Jr. was extended until 1 November with an alternative of UAH 360 million bail.
The arrest of three other defendants in the case was also extended.
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The Hrynkevych case
Businessman Ihor Hrynkevych is accused of attempting to bribe one of the heads of the SBI’s Main Investigation Department. He allegedly offered USD 500,000 for assistance in returning seized property (uniforms for the Armed Forces of Ukraine), which the SBI had been holding at customs for several months.
Ihor’s son, Roman Hrynkevych , was suspected in the case of contracts with the Ministry of Defence to provide the Armed Forces with uniforms. At first , he was accused of embezzling state funds, and then the qualification was changed to complaints about the quality of the uniforms supplied.
The Ministry of Defence cancelled contracts with Hrynkevych’s company amid the scandal. It is also known that the Ministry of Defence had no complaints about the delivered goods and had not drawn up any complaint reports at the time of the contract execution.