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Former deputy head of the Office of the President, a figure in the cases "Forrest Gump" and "Lady Justice" Irina Mudra is trying to lift the arrest on property so she can sell it and post bail.
Her lawyer Pavlo Honcharenko told Suspilne this in an interview.
On Wednesday, 23 September, the AVAKS appellate chamber considered Mudra's lawyers' motion to lift the seizure of three pieces of jewelry, two iPhones (17 and 15) and an iPad.
The case concerns a watch, a diamond ring, and a bracelet that Mudra purchased in 2019 year. At that time the amounts were: 750 thousand hryvnias for the Amadeus watch, 220 thousand for the diamond ring by Graff, and a Cartier bracelet costing 180 thousand hryvnias.
The judges denied the motion. So these items remain under arrest.
Also seized real estate objects: an apartment in Kyiv on Konovaltsia Street valued at more than 2 million UAH, a parking space, and a land plot with a house in the village of Bohdanivka, Brovary district.
Honcharenko stated that Mudra is currently deprived of the right 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 go through financial monitoring and have proven 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 did not accept the amount for a long time, although it was officially declared since 2021 year — from the moment of entering service until the day of the transfer to the AVAKS account," the lawyer said.
According to Honcharenko, Mudra's close relatives are also trying to post bail, but "bank representatives, citing the complexity of the procedure, do not give either rejection or approval, and do not process the payment."
"We are effectively in a situation where there is not even a decision that could be challenged administratively. Banks keep asking us to wait, promise to issue a decision, and then send a new request for documents. The documents are provided, and a new stage of financial monitoring begins," Honcharenko said.
According to the lawyer, the first payment was possible to make "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. Everything that existed has been posted," he said.
Honcharenko noted that Mudra turned to the court with a request to lift the arrest on part of the property so she could "convert that part of the property into funds and post bail."
According to him, "Mudra basically has no other funds; there is only part of the property under arrest."
"There are also real estate objects, but the process of selling and lifting the arrest is more complicated," he added.
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