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The former deputy head of the Office of the President, Iryna Mudra, was remanded with the full bail amount of 20 million hryvnias.
As Dilo writes, this is reported by "Ukrainska Pravda" and "Schemes" citing their own sources.
Another 25 August, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine selected Mudra’s preventive measure as detention with an alternative bail of 20 million UAH for suspected attempts to launder 150 million UAH to pay bail for another criminal case.
However, her lawyers stated that banks and payment services refuse to process the payment solely because the purpose states "bail," and the recipient is the VACs account.
After that, the VACs acknowledged that this infringes the rights of the person who is meanwhile in pre-trial detention, and instructed the National Bank of Ukraine to check within 24 hours whether banks really block such payments.
In turn, the NBU stated that they did not give banks directives or recommendations regarding blocking or mandatory payments with bail deposits. In each specific case, the bank makes its own decision.
What is known about the case?
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced a new special operation — "Forest Gump" — to uncover "high-level corruption."
According to the investigation, the defendants took control of the state Sense Bank to use it for private interests, specifically to pay bail for the defendant in the "Midas" operation (also known as the "Mindich case") with money of "criminal origin."
Law enforcement does not name the person for whom bail was being raised. Yet the details voiced point to former energy and justice minister Herman Halushchenko.
In February, VACs took Halushchenko into custody with the possibility of posting bail.
Herman Halushchenko is a figure in the large-scale operation "Midas" (also the "Mindich case") uncovering corruption in the energy sector. According to investigators, businessman Timur Mindich had influence over Halushchenko, and the minister was involved in money laundering.
According to law enforcement, the criminal group included:
the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (referring to Iryna Mudra);
the chairman of the board and the chair of the supervisory board of the state Sense Bank (referring to Oleksiy Stupak and Mykola Hladyschenko);
a former member of parliament (referring to Maksym Mykytyas).
On the same day, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Iryna Mudra from her post as deputy head of the Office of the President. The corresponding decree is dated 19 August.
2 September, VACs partially granted the prosecution’s motion and chose as a preventive measure for Sense Bank’s chairman Oleksiy Stupak bail in the amount of 15 million hryvnias.
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