Court imposes a preventive measure on the head of KRAIL
19 December 23:29
Kyiv’s Pechersk District Court has imposed a pre-trial restraint on Ivan Rudyi, the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (CRGL). He was taken into custody without the right to be released on bail. This is reported by Komersant ukrainskyi with reference to Suspilne.
According to the court’s decision, Rudyi will be held in a pre-trial detention center until February 4, 2025.
After the decision was announced, Rudyi said that all the charges against him were fabricated.
“This is completely nonsense and very carelessly fabricated charges that have no basis, no sense, and no causal relationship at all,” he said.
The Cabinet of Ministers appointed Ivan Rudyi as the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries on October 28, 2020. In January 2024, the NACP found a corruption-related violation in his actions.
Rudyi is suspected of facilitating the activities of Russian online casinos in Ukraine.
During the searches, a large amount of cocaine was found and seized from the head of KRAIL.
Ukrainian News reported, citing law enforcement sources, that about 100 grams of cocaine were found on Rudyi’s person.
