The court has nearly increased the bail amount for Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky by almost eight times in his third criminal case.

The Shevchenko District Court of Kyiv has extended the pretrial detention measure for the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who faces new suspicions related to three charges in a case involving the misappropriation of 5.8 billion Ukrainian hryvnias.

The judge modified the pretrial detention measure regarding the bail, setting it at 3,891 million hryvnias.

This information has been reported by Ukrainian journalists.

It is noted that the prosecutor from the Bureau of Economic Security had filed a motion to increase the bail amount to 5.877 billion hryvnias.

Recall that on September 2, the court ordered Kolomoisky’s detention for two months with the option of posting bail of over half a billion hryvnias.

According to the investigation, Kolomoisky artificially created the appearance of depositing 5.8 billion hryvnias in cash into the main office’s cash register of “PrivatBank” for further legalization by transferring it to other accounts.

Prior to this, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had handed Kolomoisky a suspicion notice for two charges – fraud and money laundering related to property obtained through criminal means.

On September 7, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) announced suspicions against Kolomoisky in a case involving the misappropriation of more than 9.2 billion hryvnias from “PrivatBank.” According to the investigation, in 2015, Kolomoisky, who was a co-owner of “PrivatBank,” artificially obliged his bank to pay this amount to his own offshore company under the guise of a buyback of bonds at an inflated price.