His lawyer, ex-minister of justice of Ukraine Olena Lukash informed the a bail has been posted for Ihor Huzhva by Svitlana Kriukova (Huzhva's deputy). Ihor has been taken to Lukyanivka detention center. They took him there, being aware that he was bailed out," Lukash wrote on her Facebook page.
Huzhva was arrested in Kyiv on June 22, 2017. According to Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, Huzhva demanded $10,000 in exchange for not publishing compromising material on Dmytro Linko, a Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Radical Party faction.