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Iryna Mudra seeks to lift the seizure on jewelry and electronics to sell the property and post bail
Former deputy head of the Office of the President, a defendant in the “Forrest Gump” and “Femida” cases, Iryna Mudra is trying to lift the seizure on property in order to sell it and post bail.
Her lawyer Pavlo Honcharenko told Suspilne this in a comment.
On Wednesday, 23 September, the appeals chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court reviewed Mudra’s lawyers’ motion to lift the seizure on three pieces of jewelry, two iPhones (17 and 15), and an iPad.
This concerns a watch, a diamond ring, and a bracelet that Mudra purchased in 2019. At that time, the amounts were: the Amadeus watch cost 750 thousand hryvnias, the Graff diamond ring 220 thousand, and a Cartier bracelet worth 180 thousand hryvnias.
The judges denied the motion. So these items remain under seizure.
Also seized are real estate objects: an apartment in Kyiv on Konovalets Street valued at more than 2 million hryvnias, a parking space, and a plot of land with a house in the village of Bohdanivka, Brovary district.
Honcharenko said that Mudra is currently unable to post bail.
"The law provides that bail can be posted by any person — the suspect herself, her relatives, or any third party. The funds must undergo financial monitoring and have a confirmed origin. Ms. Mudra has declared funds, which we discussed in the first instance and on appeal," he said.
According to the lawyer, part of the bail for the former official has already been posted, noting that there were difficulties with the payment.
"Financial monitoring took a long time to accept the amount, even though it has been officially declared since 2021 — from the moment she took office until the day of transfer to the HACC account," the lawyer said.
Honcharenko said Mudra’s close relatives are also trying to post bail, but "bank representatives, citing the complexity of the procedure, give neither refusal nor approval, and do not process the payment."
"We are effectively in a situation where there isn’t even a decision that could be appealed administratively. Banks repeatedly ask us to wait, promise to provide a decision, and then send a new request for documents. Documents are provided, and a new stage of financial monitoring begins," Honcharenko said.
According to the lawyer, the first payment was completed "only thanks to prolonged communication and providing all possible documents that really should not have been required."
"A payment that was supposed to go through in three hours took almost a month. What had to be paid — has all been paid," he said.
Honcharenko noted that Mudra turned to the court asking to lift the seizure on part of the property so that "that part of the property could be converted into funds and used to post bail."
According to him, "Mudra effectively has no other funds; there is only part of the property that is under seizure."
"There are also real estate objects, but the procedure for selling them and lifting the seizure is more complicated," he added.
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