Mudra helped Mykytas seize property, and he financed her and her daughter’s education, - investigation’s findings

Forrest Gump: Mudra could have helped Mykytas with the seizure of property

Court documents and recordings released by NABU indicate that Iryna Mudra, deputy head of the Office of the President, may have influenced a decision by the Ministry of Justice in the interests of former MP Maksym Mykytas.

This is stated in the Censor.NET's article "How President's Office became cover for Mykytas's and Stolar’s construction schemes".

What is known?

As the author of the article, Tetiana Nikolaienko, notes, it becomes clear from the published materials that Mykytas had been in contact with Iryna Mudra, a deputy at the Office of the President, for a long time and asked her to pressure officials at the Ministry of Justice to sign the necessary decisions.

In particular, the former lawmaker discussed with Mudra the funds needed to enforce a court ruling.

"At Mykytas’s request, Mudra consistently pushed certain decisions through the Ministry of Justice until one of her counterparts refused to follow her instructions," Nikolaienko noted.

"This seems to be the most dramatic conversation between Mudra and Mykytas, because the court documents suggest that, as well as facilitating the businessman’s shady dealings, the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration also helped him avoid punishment for numerous corruption cases.

From the evidence presented in court during the hearing on the application for a preventive measure against Mykytas, it also became clear that he had been funding Mudra and paying for her daughter’s education. At the same time, at some stage they began to suspect that an investigation was underway; they tried to wipe their phones, and Mudra was prepared to move out of the flat and hide suitcases full of valuables somewhere," Nikolaienko said.

Read the article "How President's Office became cover for Mykytas's and Stolar’s construction schemes" by following the link.

Operation ‘Forrest Gump’

It was previously reported that NABU and the SAPO are conducting a special operation to expose a criminal group involving MPs and senior officials from the Office of the President.
According to media reports, as part of the announced special operation, NABU and the SAPO are carrying out searches at the home of Iryna Mudra, deputy head of the Office of the President.
In addition, NABU detectives carried out searches at the home of Hladyshenko, the chairman of the supervisory board of ‘Sense Bank’.
Vadym Stolar, a Member of Parliament from the ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’ party, which has been banned by the court, confirmed that NABU and the SAPO are conducting searches at his premises as part of the ‘Forrest Gump’ special operation.
NABU later stated that the case involved 150 million hryvnias in cash which, according to the investigation, had been channelled into the legal system via a series of accounts held by front companies to pay bail for one of the defendants in the ‘Midas’ case.
Subsequently, the former deputy head of the Presidential Office, Iryna Mudra, confirmed that her premises were searched on 19 August; she was informed of the charges against her and served with a request for a preventive measure, but was not detained. She is preparing for the court hearing.
On 20 August, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) released new recordings of conversations involving those implicated in the ‘Forrest Gump’ case — the second part of the investigation, entitled ‘Themis’. This concerns a scheme involving the hostile takeover of property and other assets through unauthorised interference with the Ministry of Justice’s information (automated) networks.
On 20 August, a prosecutor from the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) named all the individuals implicated in NABU’s ‘Forrest Gump’ and ‘Themis’ operations.