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One of the top candidates withdrew her nomination without explanation. The temporary investigative commission, however, does have an explanation.
Former deputy head of the President’s Office and a figure in the “Forrest Gump” case, Iryna Mudra, initiated that candidates for the Supervisory Board of Sense Bank, which is also mentioned in the proceedings, be coordinated with the National Bank of Ukraine. This was confirmed during a session of the Verkhovna Rada’s temporary investigative commission.
The head of the commission, Yaroslav Zheleznyak from the Holos faction, asked whether it was true that Iryna Mudra initiated coordinating candidates with the NBU, even though the Ministry of Finance did not support that idea. Deputy Minister of Finance Yurii Draganchuk replied: “Well, yes, there was such an episode.”
At the same time, at the commission meeting, the director of the recruiting company Executive Search Ukraine (AMROP), Viesturs Liegis, said that candidate for the Supervisory Board Yeva Derval declined to participate in the competition. She had one of the highest scores, unlike Mykola Hladyshenko, who scored the lowest, but she herself withdrew her nomination. Derval did not explain the reasons for her decision.
“Yeva Derval was one of the candidates included on the short list. She received one of the highest scores. The selection committee chose her, and later the Cabinet of Ministers confirmed and approved her. At some point she withdrew her candidacy and did not report any circumstances of that decision. She only asked us not to discuss it with the selection committee,” Liegis said.
In response to Zheleznyak’s clarifying question whether Derval said she was withdrawing due to pressure from the regulator, Liegis answered “no.”
However, as the head of the temporary investigative commission noted, the commission has information from several members of the selection committee that Derval was allegedly told she would not be approved by the NBU. And for a foreign national, a refusal from the National Bank of Ukraine would have ruined her banking career not only in our country but also abroad.
Recall that after publication of materials gathered as part of the “Forrest Gump” operation concerning collecting money for bail for former Minister of Economy and Justice Herman Halushchenko, the powers of Sense Bank Supervisory Board chair Mykola Hladyshenko were decided to be terminated. The NBU opened an administrative proceeding to assess the collective suitability of the entire composition of Sense Bank’s Supervisory Board.
According to the investigation, to legalize 150 million UAH in cash intended to post bail for former Minister of Energy and Justice Herman Halushchenko, affiliated companies and individuals, as well as Sense Bank management, were involved. The special operation “Forrest Gump” materials mention former deputy head of the President’s Office Iryna Mudra, former MP Maksym Mykytas, People's Deputy from the former OPZZh Vadym Stolar, Sense Bank Supervisory Board chair Mykola Hladyshenko, the bank’s CEO Oleh Stupak, and others. The investigation describes several tranches that were delivered to Mykytas’s office during June, after which part of the money was directed through a so-called “laundering” scheme. According to NABU, Hladyshenko reported to Mudra on the transportation and legalization of the funds. On 29 June bail for Halushchenko was posted in the amount of 150 million UAH.
Moreover, according to ZN.UA, while in pretrial detention, Halushchenko began discussing the possibility of cooperating with the investigation through his lawyers with NABU and SAP. There were several such conversations. At the same time, Halushchenko’s lawyers sent a signal to Bankova Street: if the bail issue was not resolved, the former minister could begin cooperating with the investigation and testify about people from the higher levels of the corruption chain. According to our sources, this signal was taken seriously at Bankova. It was after this that the search for 150 million UAH for the bail began.
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