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From Monday the SAP may petition to change the preventive measure.
Yesterday the subject of the "Forrest Gump" investigation, Vadym Stolar, confirmed that he cannot post the bail of 300 million hryvnias that the High Anti-Corruption Court chose as an alternative preventive measure because banks are refusing him transfers. He accused the financial institution of unjustified and "illegal actions," threatening to appeal to the NBU. Meanwhile, the member of parliament from Servant of the People, Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk, said the problem for Stolar arose even before the stage of transferring the money.
"A people's deputy from OPZH cannot exchange foreign currency for Ukrainian hryvnia. Banks have most likely simply blocked any transactions related to him until the circumstances of the origin of the funds, which likely came from abroad, are clarified," she explained.
According to the deputy, this could have been caused by Stolar's consultants' lack of knowledge of basic financial monitoring principles. Meanwhile, from Monday the SAP may petition to change the preventive measure for this subject.
Recall that in August NABU and the SAP 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 deputy and developer Mykytas, the deputy from the former OPZH Stolar, and former Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra, ensured the legalization of 150 million hryvnias obtained criminally, which were later used to pay bail for one of the subjects of the "Midas" case. Preliminary reports indicate this concerns 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.
The investigation also believes that the suspects in "Forrest Gump" illegally seized expensive real estate in Kyiv by forging documents, including court decisions and ownership rights. The value of the assets of the enterprises they seized in the autumn of 2025 is over 248 million hryvnias.
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