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It is being determined whether Dashutin pressured colleagues and whether he deliberately disrupted the hearing on 3 April by means of a strange “vacation” taken by a judge on the day the verdict was to be announced.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau is investigating the possible involvement of the head of the Cassation Administrative Court, Ihor Dashutin, in unlawfully influencing other judges, including during consideration of the case to lift sanctions against Ukraine’s fifth president, Petro Poroshenko. According to information voiced by Member of Parliament Nina Yuzhanina at a meeting of the temporary investigative commission on 2 September, Dashutin may have helped delay the case, and on NABU recordings former Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Iryna Mudra, who is currently in pretrial detention as a figure in the “Forrest Gump” case, speaks about a request to “resolve this matter amicably.”
This was reported by Slidstvo.Info.
The analytical-advocacy center Foundation DEJURE, citing sources, reported that on 19 August searches were carried out at Dashutin’s and the head of the Cassation Commercial Court, Larysa Rohach’s, premises as part of operation “Themis.” In 2024 year, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention began monitoring Dashutin’s lifestyle over alleged use of luxury real estate whose value did not match the family’s official assets. According to an investigation by Bihus.Info, the judge’s family lives in a prestigious cottage community near Kyiv, although ownership rights to the house are registered neither to him nor to his wife, Anna.
Recordings of conversations between Iryna Mudra and former parliamentarian Maksym Mykytas, according to the MP, appear in the materials of the “Forrest Gump” scheme. They concern possible influence on the judges who considered Poroshenko’s lawsuit against President Volodymyr Zelensky regarding the legality of the decree imposing the sanctions.
At the TSC meeting, Yuzhanina read a fragment of a conversation allegedly on NABU recordings. Mudra recounts a meeting and a proposal to find a way to “resolve” the sanctions issue.
“In short, yes, they met yesterday. Regarding the sanctions issue, he allegedly has no personal complaints against me; he knows that I will follow only orders, and he asks to find some possibility, allegedly, to resolve this matter amicably. He offers a billion, allegedly for the Armed Forces. What do you think about this, Iryna Romanivna? I say: ‘So, are there any questions for me? Well, you understand, he understands how courts work. I deal with courts. I spoke with Dashutin,’” reads the fragment that was read aloud.
Yuzhanina stated that Dashutin may have deliberately facilitated the disruption of the hearing in the sanctions case on 3 April 2026 year. She said that the day before, Judge Olga Kashpur submitted a leave request, which the court head approved.
“At the same time, information on the Cassation Court’s website shows that on 3 April (the day when Judge Kashpur was supposedly on leave), other cases were being assigned to her,” the MP said.
Yuzhanina believes that approving Kashpur’s leave on the day the decision was to be announced could have artificially delayed consideration of the case and created additional time for possible influence on other judges.
NABU told Slidstvo.Info journalists that as of 2 September Dashutin had not been notified of suspicion.
On 10 July 2026 year the Cassation Administrative Court dismissed Poroshenko’s lawsuit seeking to lift the sanctions. Zelensky imposed them in February 2025 year.
Recall that NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announced a number of suspicions as part of the “Forrest Gump” anti-corruption investigation. The investigation established that members of the criminal organization, among them former MP and developer Maksym Mykytas, MP from the former OPZZh Vadym Stolar, and former Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Iryna Mudra, arranged the legalization of 150 million hryvnias obtained by criminal means, which were later used to pay bail for one of the figures in the “Midas” case. Preliminary reports name the former minister of energy and justice Herman Halushchenko. Controlled companies and the management of the state-owned Sense Bank were also involved in the scheme.
In addition, the investigation believes that the suspects in “Forrest Gump” illegally seized expensive real estate in Kyiv by forging documents, including court decisions and ownership documents. The value of the assets of the enterprises they seized in the fall of 2025 is over 248 million hryvnias.
On 25 August the High Anti-Corruption Court remanded Mudra in custody with the possibility of bail of 20 million hryvnias. At that time the former official said she had part of the money for bail but would ask friends to contribute the rest.
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