Back
Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
The “Forrest Gump” case: a Kyiv court is selecting a preventive measure for Maksym Mykytas. The SAP will request that the former MP be held in custody with bail set at 200 million hryvnias, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondent reports from the courtroom.
Also in his statement, prosecutor Vitalii Rybalkin described the activities of the organization that the prosecution considers criminal, and its personnel:
🛑Iryna Mudra, former Deputy Head of the Office of the President
🛑Viktor Dubovyk, Director General of the Directorate for Legal Policy of the Office of the President
🛑Olena Ferens, Deputy Minister of Justice
🛑Maksym Mykytas, former member of parliament
🛑Vadym Stolar, current member of parliament
🛑Vasyl Astion, businessman, former deputy of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council
🛑Mykola Hladyshchenko, former chair of the board of the state-owned Sens Bank
🛑Oleh Stupak, former chair of the board of the state-owned Sens Bank
🛑Liudmyla Snihur, head of a department at the state-owned Sens Bank
🛑Valentyn Yelizarov (Mykytas’s subordinate, head of Metrobud LLC)
🛑Mykyta Tarkovskyi (associated with Mykytas)
🛑Yehor Merkulov (Mykytas’s driver, nominal head of Montazh Servis LLC)
🛑Oleksandr Ostapenko (Mykytas’s bodyguard, nominal director of Filosofia Development LLC).
The hearing will last two days – the first day the prosecution speaks, 21 August the floor will be given to the defense.
ℹ️19 In August NABU reported that during an operation called “Forrest Gump” it uncovered a group of individuals that “organized and ensured the legalization of funds obtained by criminal means.” The case concerns 150 million hryvnias in cash which, according to the investigation, were funneled through a series of accounts of shell companies and brought into legal circulation to pay bail for one of the members of the criminal organization in the “Midas” case.
20 In August anti-corruption agencies published the second part of the investigation – “Themis.” It describes how this same group, according to the investigation, organized raider takeovers of real estate and businesses in Kyiv.
