The court ordered Irina Mudra to remain in custody

The High Anti-Corruption Court upheld the pretrial detention order for Iryna Mudriy, the former deputy head of the Office of the President. She remains in custody, with the option of posting bail. 

Mudriy’s defense team requested that her detention be replaced with bail and that she be released from the pretrial detention center. The attorneys stated that nearly 13 million hryvnias had already been deposited into the designated account. According to them, they have not yet been able to deposit the remaining amount due to issues with processing bank transfers.

According to the attorney, friends, colleagues, and the former official’s common-law husband had attempted to deposit the funds. The prosecutor opposed changing the pretrial measure. He stated that Mudra’s release is possible only after the full bail amount has been paid, and the risk of her absconding, in the prosecution’s view, has not diminished.

As a reminder, the High Anti-Corruption Court remanded Iryna Mudra into custody for 60 days and set bail at 20 million hryvnia. If she posts bail, she must appear when summoned by NABU investigators and the court, may not leave Kyiv or the Kyiv region without permission, must refrain from communicating with witnesses and suspects, must surrender her passport, and must wear an electronic ankle monitor.

Source: Glavkom.

As a reminder, on August 19, NABU and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) announced a large-scale special operation called “Forest Gump” to expose the activities of a criminal organization operating under the leadership of a current and a former member of parliament, with the participation of high-ranking officials from the Office of the President and other individuals.

Subsequently, NABU released details of the operation and recordings of the suspects’ conversations. According to the investigation, a group was exposed that organized the laundering of 150 million hryvnias obtained through criminal means. The funds were allegedly funneled into the legal economy through the accounts of shell companies to pay bail for one of the members of the criminal organization in the “Midas” case.