The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court published information on its official channels stating that the preventive measure against former Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshov had been upheld. It later retracted the information because no hearing on the matter had taken place.

Chernyshov’s attorney, Oleksandr Tananakin, wrote about this on Facebook.

“A curious false start by the High Anti-Corruption Court. Today, the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court published information on its official channels—which was later removed—regarding the upholding of a pretrial measure against the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. However, no hearing on this case took place today, and the court apparently published a pre-prepared statement and a graphic depicting a predetermined outcome of the appeal proceedings,” he said.

The attorney is convinced that this regrettable incident was a consequence of the “Midas” special operation, just as the outcome of the pretrial detention hearing in the court of first instance was. Tananakhin promised a procedural response to this incident.

The High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) imposed a pretrial measure on former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov as part of proceedings regarding the embezzlement of funds from the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company “Energoatom.” Chernyshov was ordered to be held in custody for 60 days as a pretrial measure. However, an alternative was offered: posting bail in the amount of 51.6 million hryvnias.

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov, who is suspected of illicit enrichment, has appealed the Higher Anti-Corruption Court’s (HACC) decision regarding the pretrial measure.