Ex-minister Chernyshev wants to be bailed out by Bishop Komansky and two other people
Oleksiy Chernyshov (Photo: Press Service of the Cabinet of Ministers)

Three people want to bail out the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov. In particular, the Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Ukraine, Bishop Mykhailo Komansky (in the world Mykhailo Anishchenko), reports Interfax-Ukraine.

According to data by LB correspondent Vitaliy Tkachuk, the bishop read from a piece of paper at a meeting of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court that "Chernyshov is decent.".

The second applicant is Oleksandr Savchenko, the head of the Balytsky Research Institute of Construction Production. At the court hearing, he stated that he had known the former minister for 25 years and was born in the same city as him.

The third person willing to be bailed out is Oleksandr Usenko, director general of the Shalimov National Research Center for Surgery and Transplantation. However, he did not appear in court because he is a doctor and is allegedly at work, so his petition will not be considered at the hearing.

However, the prosecution emphasized that bail would not protect against risks and asked to take Chernyshev into custody with an alternative bail of UAH 55 million.

  • on November 11, NABU and SAPO notified the former Deputy Prime Minister of suspicion of illicit enrichment. According to law enforcement officials, he is a person involved in the Midas energy corruption case, alias Che Guevara.
  • On November 12, Ukrayinska Pravda reported that for the second time, suspect Chernyshov visited military intelligence. Details are unknown, and the visit itself "raises questions".
  • On November 14, NABU and SAPO handed Chernyshov a motion to keep him in custody.