The Prosecutor's office will demand in court the Deposit of 17 million hryvnia (about 800 thousand dollars) For the former chief editor of the Ukrainian newspaper "Vesti" Igor Guzhva, who instituted a case under the criminal code in connection with deliberate tax evasion.

"right now the investigator suffered the application of the measure of restraint. Require a security Deposit of 17 million hryvnias. For comparison, my lawyers analyzed the practice of collateral by my article - the highest for the last time was a little over 1 million hryvnia (about 47 thousand dollars). Apparently, they want to go on record, " wrote Guzhva on his page century

last week Guzhva was declared wanted on suspicion of intentional tax evasion amounting to about 18 million hryvnia (about 833 thousand dollars). First media holding "News of Ukraine" said Guzhva has left the company and resigned the range of opportunities chief editor of the Ukrainian daily newspaper. It was also noted that Guzhva no longer carries out the management activities and monitoring the editorial policy of the media holding assets.

The journalist was interrogated on the first day of the week, the court within 72 hours is required to consider the idea of election to it measures of restraint. According to Guzhva, the case of the UK is built on fraud and " in the courts it will collapse ". Former editor-in-chief Also said that was not afraid to return to Ukraine, although concerns were ".

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