Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solsky has been released from custody, Kommersant Ukrainsky reports 
citing the ministry’s press service.
The minister was released on a court-ordered bail of UAH 75.7 million, but the ministry did not specify who did it. Mykola Solsky has been released from custody and, moreover, continues to perform his duties as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
However, now Solsky must:
- report to the detective, prosecutor or court upon every summons and request;
- not leave Kyiv and Kyiv region without the permission of the detective, prosecutor or court
- notify the detective, prosecutor or court of any change of residence;
- to refrain from communicating with other suspects, witnesses in criminal proceedings and other persons regarding the suspicion notified to him/her, except for defence counsels, detectives, prosecutors, investigating judge, court;
- to deposit his/her passport for travelling abroad and other documents giving the right to leave and enter Ukraine with the relevant state authorities;
- wear an electronic control device.
Solskiy’s case
Law enforcement authorities accuse Solsky of seizing state land worth UAH 291 million and attempting to seize another UAH 190 million.
The minister, for his part, said that this relates to the period from 2017 to 2018, when he was practicing law. Solsky also said that the case is about a dispute between state-owned enterprises and individuals who were legally transferred land.
Solsky has been in office since March 2022.
on 25 April, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, said that the Parliament had received a letter of resignation from the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mykola Solskyi.
Stefanchuk noted that the letter would be considered at one of the next plenary sessions of the parliament.