The ex-official is suspected of receiving a $400,000 bribe for facilitating the purchase of mobile boilers before the heating season.
The higher anti-corruption court chose the ex-deputy minister of development of communities, territories and infrastructure of Ukraine Vasyl Lozynskyi as a preventive measure in the form of arrest with the possibility of making a bail of 50 million UAH.
This was reported by the press service of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
“On February 17, the Appeals Chamber of the State Administrative Court fully satisfied the appeal of the prosecutor of the SAP and chose a preventive measure in the form of detention in the form of detention for the former deputy minister of community and territorial development, who is suspected of demanding and receiving $400,000 in illegal benefits,” the message said. .
The preventive measure is valid until March 22.
The case of Lozinsky
On January 21, 2023, Deputy Minister of Community Development Vasyl Lozynsky, as well as his accomplices, were arrested for receiving a $400,000 bribe for assistance in concluding contracts for the purchase of equipment and machinery.
On January 22, 2023, Lozynskyi was dismissed from the post of Deputy Minister of Community Development.
Preliminary legal qualification of the detainee’s actions – Part 4 of Art. 368 (bribe in a particularly large size), part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (on the appropriation, embezzlement or seizure of someone else’s property by an official, which was committed on a particularly large scale or by an organized group).
In the summer of 2022, the Cabinet of Ministers allocated almost UAH 1.41 billion to the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine to provide the population with heat during the winter period.
For a $400,000 bribe, Lozinsky agreed to the entrepreneur’s offer to purchase mobile boiler plants at prices that were 25-30% more expensive than market prices.
On January 24, 2023, VAKS chose a precautionary measure for the organizer of the transfer of the bribe to Lozinsky, businessman Serhiy Kryvyi. He was taken into custody with an alternative bail of more than UAH 100 million.
On January 24, 2023, Lozinsky was sent under house arrest.
