Mudra's defense team called for a critical assessment of the prosecutor's statements
Lawyers for Iryna Mudra, the former deputy head of the Office of the President, have called on the High Anti-Corruption Court and journalists to take a critical view of the prosecution’s arguments.
This refers to statements made by the prosecutor while justifying a motion to impose a pretrial restraint measure on Mudra in the form of pretrial detention with an alternative bail of 150 million hryvnias.
Speaking on Monday at the High Anti-Corruption Court hearing on Mudra’s pretrial measure, the defense specifically pointed out that the phrase from the National Security and Defense Council document regarding “control of corruption” does not actually belong to Mudra, and that the context of the phrase has been altered. The attorney explained that “control of corruption” is an indicator as defined by the World Bank—that is, a metric that measures a country’s level of protection against corruption. It was precisely in this context, according to the defense, that this phrase was used.
In other words, as Mudra’s defense asserts, the excerpts from the covert investigative actions cited by the prosecutor are incomplete; the prosecutor does not provide full quotations, thereby distorting the meaning of the conversations.
“I ask the court not to rely on subjective interpretations,” the attorney urged, adding that he also calls on media representatives to do the same.
In general, according to the defense, there is no need to impose a preventive measure as such, since the risks listed by the prosecutor do not exist. According to him, Mudra has not changed her place of residence or traveled abroad at any time, and while covert investigative actions were being conducted, the prosecutor’s office never once applied to the court regarding the need to impose a preventive measure.
“A preventive measure is not mandatory… There is no such obligation under the Code of Criminal Procedure. We will ask the court to refuse to impose a preventive measure altogether,” the attorney noted.
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