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A year of debates and still no verdict: The High Anti-Corruption Court once again failed to finish Mykitas's case
Today, 5 November, the High Anti-Corruption Court again postponed the hearing in the bribery case of former MP Maksym Mykytas.
They still did not reach the defendant’s final statement, although the court debates have been ongoing since 6 November 2025 (!) year.
The next hearing was scheduled only for 24 December.
The case concerns an alleged bribe to Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov in the amount of 22 million euros.
The case is being heard by a panel of judges consisting of Volodymyr Voronko, Andrii Bitsiuk, and Vira Mykhailenko.
Hearings are scheduled very rarely: the last one took place on 29 October, but before that the previous one was only at the end of April (two hearings that were scheduled for July did not take place).
Why the court did not reach the defendant’s final statement today is unknown: the judges had no other hearings on their schedule for that day.
❗️At the same time, in NABU’s materials regarding the “Forrest Gump” operation, Iryna Mudra, who had close contacts with Mykytas, mentions conversations with then-Head of the HACC Vira Mykhailenko.
The same person who is now part of the panel in Mykytas’s case:
“This Semennikov, who… Vira told me this once, Semennikov is crazy about you, he follows all your…”
Mykhailenko herself acknowledged in a previous hearing that she had spoken with Mudra, but stated that she did not know about Mudra’s relationship with Mykytas and had not discussed the case. She did not file a recusal.
The case is effectively one step away from a verdict; why it cannot be completed is unknown.
The statute of limitations expires in October 2032.
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