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Former Deputy Head of the Office of the President and defendant in the "Forrest Gump" and "Themis" 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 appellate chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court (VACR) considered Mudra’s lawyers’ motion to lift the seizure on three pieces of jewelry, two iPhones (17 and 15) and an iPad.
These concern 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.
Real estate objects are also seized: an apartment in Kyiv on Konovalets Street valued at more than 2 million UAH, a parking space, and a plot of land with a house in the village of Bohdanivka, Brovary district.
Honcharenko said that Mudra is currently prevented from posting bail.
"The law provides that bail may be posted by any person — the accused herself, her relatives, or any third party. The funds must pass financial monitoring and have confirmed origin. Ms. Mudra has declared funds that 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 did not accept the amount for a long time, although it has been officially declared since 2021 — from the moment she took office until the day of transfer to the VACR 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, neither give refusals nor approvals, and do not make the payment."
"We are effectively in a situation where there is not even a decision that could be challenged administratively. Banks each time ask 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 starts," Honcharenko said.
The lawyer said the first payment was made "only thanks to prolonged communication and providing all possible documents that actually should not have been required."
"The payment that was supposed to go through in three hours took almost a month. What was required — has all been posted," he said.
Honcharenko noted that Mudra applied to the court asking to lift the seizure on part of the property in order to "convert that part of the property into funds and 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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