Court releases NABU detective with apartment in Odesa from arrest

The Kyiv Court of Appeal has released Ruslan Magamedrasulov, an investigator with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, who was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine on suspicion of doing business in Russia.

This was reported by a Hromadske correspondent from the courtroom.

Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office detained Ruslan Magamedrasulov, one of the heads of the interregional detective departments of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, on suspicion of doing business in the Russian Federation in July.

Also, on December 2, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv released Sentyabr Magamedrasulov, the father of NABU detective Ruslan Magamedrasulov, from the pre-trial detention center. Magamedrasulov's senior lawyers said that the Prosecutor General's Office had submitted a petition to change the measure of restraint for their client to the Pechersk court. The request was signed by Oleksandr Hanilov, prosecutor of the first division of the first department of the Department for Supervision over the Observance of Laws by the State Bureau of Investigation of the Prosecutor General's Office.

The father and son plead not guilty. Magamedrasulov and his defense insist that the cases against him and his father were opened to put pressure on the NABU.

In his declaration for 2024, the NABU official indicated that during the full-scale invasion, he became the owner of three apartments in Bulgaria and Kyiv, as well as a 2022 Tesla Model Y. He purchased the car in 2023, the apartment in Bulgaria in July 2022, and the apartment in Kyiv in 2024. In addition, in January 2022, he acquired ownership of an unfinished apartment in Odesa with an area of 30.2 square meters.

The SBU alleged that the man worked in Dnipro and coordinated the Bureau's activities in the frontline regions of Ukraine (Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia), while having contacts with representatives of the aggressor country and helping his father, an entrepreneur, to conduct illegal trade with the Russian Federation.

Кирило Бойко