Mykytas Agrees to Cooperate With Investigators and Testifies Against Groysman and Atroshenko, Source Says

Ex-MP suspected of manipulating apartment purchases for the National Guard has started talking.

Former Ukrainian People's Deputy Maksym Mykytas has agreed to cooperate with investigators and has testified in the case of the state company Ukrbud.

Sources told TK Media that Mykytas, currently in pretrial detention, has testified against former Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, Chernihiv Mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko and Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Oleh Tatarov.

It is also known that after receiving Mykytas' testimony, law enforcement officers searched Groysman's premises.

In October 2019, Mykytas was taken into custody with an alternative bail of UAH 80 million. The MP paid the bail and was released from custody. In April 2020, the court ruled to recover the money paid by Mykytas to the budget for violating his procedural obligations.

In May 2020, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) again arrested the 40-year-old member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, with an alternative bail of UAH 100 million. The developer refused to pay the bail and has been in pretrial detention for more than six months.

On December 1, NABU detectives served Mykytas with a notice of suspicion of committing a new crime in the Ukrbud case. He is also suspected of bribing a court expert in exchange for a false written conclusion.