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The lawyer emphasized that Mykytas tried to manipulate his client, and in conversations with other people he said that he was "grooming" her.
The High Anti-Corruption Court at the hearing on 25 August ordered former Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra to be held in custody with the possibility of bail of 20 million UAH. The prosecution requested bail of 150 million hryvnias for her. Mudra asked that a preventive measure not be imposed or that one be chosen that does not involve detention.
If bail is posted, Mudra will have to wear an electronic monitoring device, not leave Kyiv and the Kyiv region, and refrain from communicating with witnesses. The ruling is subject to immediate execution but may be appealed within five days.
"I have partly my own money and money from acquaintances and friends. I'll try to find it," Mudra said to journalists when asked whether she has funds for bail.
At the hearing on 25 August the defense presented its case. The lawyer believes that the other suspect, Maksym Mykytas, flattered Mudra, and from conversations with other people it is clear that he used her.
The lawyer also believes that the bail amount sought by the prosecution is not justified. He added that a doctor advised Mudra to be hospitalized, but she refused because of the court proceedings.
"We ask to refuse the application of such a preventive measure on the grounds that the prosecutor has not proven either the risks or the amount of bail," the lawyer said.
After that, Iryna Mudra spoke. She recounted her biography, saying that she had worked in banks for 20 years. At the start of the full-scale war she took a small child abroad, but agreed to work at the Ministry of Justice and returned in order, as Mudra claims, to fight the Russians in the legal arena. After that she worked on creating a tribunal to hold the aggressor accountable. In 2024 the tribunal was at risk of collapse, Mudra said. At that time it was proposed not to try Vladimir Putin and to prohibit issuing verdicts in absentia. Mudra said she took the matter into her own hands and went to negotiations in Vienna in September 2024. Her team dismantled all the positions of each of the parties that opposed it. Mudra met with those parties and persuaded them, she added.
"Today I am suspected of misappropriating someone else's property. But everything I have done these years was returning property to the state," Iryna Mudra said.
She added that she last returned from a business trip in August this year, that is, at the time when, according to NABU, she already knew about the investigation against her. Mudra assured that she has no intention of fleeing from the investigation.
She also said that a person close to her recorded her on a microphone. And it is precisely this that, she says, is being charged against her: what this person (Maksym Mykytas) told her. Mudra noted that Mykytas on 8 January said that he left her $4 million.
"I never received 4 million dollars from Mykytas. Neither in cash nor in banking form," Iryna Mudra said.
The former official added that, regrettably, she did not know how to read people.
She does not understand why Mykytas's words are taken at face value after all the criminal cases against him. Mudra denied that she gave instructions to seize enterprises' property.
She also said that her eight-year-old son is in Ukraine. Due to the shelling they may be not in Kyiv but in the Kyiv region, so she asked the court not to restrict movement.
At about 9:38 the judge went into the deliberation room. After 10 hour he announced the decision.
This was already the third attempt to choose a preventive measure for the former official of the Office of the President. The consideration began last Friday and resumed yesterday. The hearing on 24 August was interrupted by an air raid alert.
Suspicion against Iryna Mudra
Iryna Mudra, former MP Maksym Mykytas, current MP Vadym Stolar and ten other people are suspects in participating in a criminal group engaged in raiding that arranged the posting of 150 million hryvnias obtained illegally as bail for the suspect in the “Midas” case, former minister Herman Halushchenko.
The exposure of a criminal organization headed by the former and current MPs and involving Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra was reported to NABU and SAP on 19 August. According to the investigation, they ensured the posting of bail of 150 million hryvnias for Herman Halushchenko, suspected of participating in a criminal organization that the investigation considers headed by Tymur Mindich, and in the legalization of funds. Halushchenko had been in custody with the alternative of bail of 200 million hryvnias since 17 February. Later his bail amount was reduced to 150 million hryvnias. It is these funds, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau believes, that the Mykytas-Stolar criminal organization accumulated and ran through the state-owned Sens Bank without financial monitoring in June this year, after which Halushchenko was released from custody.
That same Mykytas-Stolar organization, with the participation of Iryna Mudra, according to NABU, engaged in raiding enterprises and illegally re-registering their real estate. This case was called “Themis.” The investigation established that members of the organization used hackers' services to illegally interfere in registries and re-registrations, bribed judges, and pressured the Ministry of Justice.
Maksym Mykytas was ordered detained with the possibility of bail of 30 million hryvnias. For Iryna Mudra the prosecution sought bail of 150 million UAH. That is the same amount as Herman Halushchenko, in assistance with whose bail she is suspected.
Yelizarova was sent to custody with bail of 20 million UAH. Dubovyk was sent to custody with bail of 7 million UAH.
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