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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky responded to corruption cases involving former representatives of the Office of the President, in particular the now-former Deputy Head of the OP Iryna Mudra, who was responsible for the legal direction and development of reparations mechanisms. According to the head of state, he has no additional information about these cases beyond what is publicly available, which he said while speaking with journalists, reports a correspondent of Suspilne. During all the years Zelensky has been in office, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia was invited to off-the-records only once. And this was not that time.
The president said that information from open sources proved sufficient to make personnel decisions regarding OP employees.
“There were enough details to dismiss her. I heard, practically along with you, some conversations about certain actions — real or potential. It is inappropriate to discuss them now. What was voiced there — I consider it sufficient for the deputy and one more person in the department to be dismissed. If there is additional information — we will respond to additional information,” Zelensky said.
The president also commented on the possibility of a personnel purge in the Office of the President. In his view, changing staff should not become a formality.
“Rotations should not be an end in themselves. You can do some rotations every day. But there is not always someone to replace them with,” the head of state said.
Zelensky emphasized that the anti-corruption bodies continue to operate independently, and the authorities respond to their investigations.
The head of state outlined the course of action in the event that suspicions are raised against officials:
“They take certain steps — we react to those steps.
If it is a minister and there are grounds to dismiss them — they will be dismissed.
If there are some unclear things, then one must wait for additional details, a court verdict.
He added that the heads of the anti-corruption bodies have no questions for him personally. “They perfectly understand that I do not engage in anything like that. And that is important for me,” the president summed up.
It is worth recalling that the anti-corruption bodies have no questions for Zelensky not because they consider him innocent. It’s simply that the law on the activities of NABU and SAP clearly states that they do not have the authority to make sitting presidents of Ukraine the subjects of their investigations.
As is known, the former Deputy Head of the OP Iryna Mudra was notified of suspicion by the anti-corruption investigators in two high-profile corruption cases. The first is “Forrest Gump.” The investigation established that the official, together with other members of the criminal organization, among whom were former MP and developer Maksym Mykytas and MP from the former OPZZh Vadym Stolar, provided for the legalization of 150 million hryvnias obtained by criminal means
It is recalled that these funds were later used to pay bail for one of the defendants in the “Midas” case. Preliminary reports indicate this concerns the former Minister of Energy and Justice Herman Halushchenko. Companies controlled by them and the management of the state-owned Sense Bank were also involved in the scheme.
The second case concerns raiding. The investigation believes that the suspects in “Forrest Gump” also illegally seized expensive real estate in Kyiv by forging documents, including court decisions and title deeds. The value of the assets of the enterprises they took over in the fall of 2025 is more than 248 million hryvnias.
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