Kyivpost: Court releases Avakov’s son without bail
Kyiv’s Solomyansky Court on Nov. 1 released Interior Minister Arsen Avakov’s son Oleksandr, ex-Deputy Interior Minister Serhiy Chebotar and IT firm Turboseo’s CEO Volodymyr Lytvyn, suspects in a graft case, without bail and imposed travel restrictions on them.
On Oct. 31, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Avakov, Chebotar and Lytvyn. National Guards and police were brought to the premises searched by the NABU in what critics saw as an attempt to obstruct their work.
The suspects are accused of embezzling Hr 14 million in a case related to the supply of backpacks to the Interior Ministry. The prices of backpacks were significantly higher than market ones, the NABU said.
Video footage has been published on the Internet where Oleksandr Avakov and Chebotar discuss an allegedly corrupt scheme to supply backpacks to the Interior Ministry.