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Businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, who is being detained, publicly spoke about the high-profile “Forrest Gump” case involving former deputy head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra. The businessman called unacceptable the very method by which Mudra’s conversations were recorded.
According to Kolomoisky, the situation around the recording of warm words by a “close person” cannot justify the purpose for which it was done.
"What kind of country, such is the mafia. Well, suckers, well, what can you do. I feel simply sorry for Mudra as a person... A close person recorded her. Whispered warm words in her ear and at the same time recorded. Well, as a human being..." the businessman said.
19 August The National Anti-Corruption Bureau reported a joint special operation with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, within which they exposed an organization that operated under the leadership of current and former Members of Parliament of Ukraine with the involvement of high-ranking officials from the Office of the President. According to the investigation, the scheme was named “Forrest Gump,” and the suspects are accused of legalizing 150 million hryvnias, which were used as bail for a defendant in the “Midas” case — former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko.
The businessman also spoke about former Member of Parliament Maksym Mykytas, who appears on NABU recordings together with Mudra. Kolomoisky drew a parallel with the case of MP Boryslav Rozenblat and the bureau agent who worked undercover, emphasizing the unacceptability of a man recording conversations with a woman he trusts.
"When, say, agent Kateryna deceived and seduced that Rozenblat — that’s one thing. That’s Mata Hari, that’s acceptable. But when a man turned in a woman — that, I think, is beyond the pale. This is not the path that leads us to victory," Ihor Kolomoisky said.
They revealed details of the scheme involving the state bank and the bail for Halushchenko
Among the suspects in the case is Iryna Mudra, who has already been dismissed from the position of deputy head of the Office of the President, as well as former Member of Parliament Maksym Mykytas, who has previously featured in NABU and SAP investigations. Searches were also conducted as part of the case at the premises of current Member of Parliament Vadym Stolar from the "Revival of Ukraine" group. When searches were carried out at Mudra’s, Mykytas, according to Ukrainska Pravda, was at her home — he, sources for the outlet say, coordinated the posting of bail for Halushchenko.
The investigation believes that to carry out the scheme the suspects used the state-owned Sense Bank and the accounts of controlled enterprises. The powers of Sense Bank supervisory board chairman Mykola Hladyshenko have already been suspended, and the bank itself is planned to be sold.
Earlier Informator reported that Kolomoisky’s case on the misappropriation of 9,2 billion hryvnias from PrivatBank may be transferred from the High Anti-Corruption Court to another court — the businessman’s defense motion is being considered on 28 August. We also wrote that former PrivatBank top manager Tymur Novikov was mentioned in U.S. court documents as a key figure in large-scale schemes to siphon funds from the bank in the interests of Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholyubov.
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