Wednesday, the Southern District of New York argued that not only should Parnas not be allowed to leave his house as he pleases, but he should instead be detained even more strictly and have his bail revoked. The federal prosecutors claim that the businessman, who was arrested at an airport holding a one-way ticket to Vienna, unsurprisingly “poses an extreme risk of flight,” in part because Parnas lied about his assets to the government—including an undisclosed $1 million payment from Russia.
Parnas, the filing explains, was able to secure his home detention on a $200,000 cash bond, after claiming that he didn't have enough assets to cover the bond when it was originally set at $1 million. But in his statements to Pretrial Services and the Government after he was released on bond, Parnas made substantially different disclosures about his assets each time, and prosecutors say none of the statements Parnas made “were consistent or fully accurate.
The businessman's lies about his money, prosecutors argue, are one of several reasons that Parnas shouldn't be trusted not to leave the country, along with his penchant for taking “circuitous travel routes that obscured his final destination” when he traveled abroad; his adeptness “at gaining access to foreign funding” ; and his ties to top-level Ukrainian officials, among other “incentives to flee.
Because of this, SDNY is requesting that Parnas has his bail revoked and goes from home detention to “home incarceration,” which would further restrict his opportunities to leave his house and possibly flee the country. Prosecutors are also asking that Parnas's “attorneys be required to visit his home in person,” and that his wife and son surrender their passports so they cannot flee the country with him.
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