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Mykytas remanded in custody: bail set at UAH 30 million
The High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) imposed a measure of restraint on former MP Maksym Mykytas, who is implicated in the Forest Gump case.
This was reported by Censor.NET.
What did the court decide?
The prosecution requested that Mykytas be remanded in custody with the option of posting UAH 200 million bail.
The court remanded him in custody with the option of posting UAH 30 million bail.
If bail is posted, Mykytas will also be subject to the following procedural obligations:
- wear an electronic monitoring bracelet;
- appear when summoned by a detective, prosecutor or court;
- refrain from communicating with other individuals involved in the case, including Mudra, Stolar and others;
- surrender his passport for travel abroad.
Operation "Forrest Gump"
- It was previously reported that NABU and SAPO were conducting a special operation aimed at exposing a criminal group involving MPs and senior Presidential Office officials.
- According to media reports, NABU and SAPO were conducting searches involving Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra as part of the announced operation.
- NABU detectives also conducted searches involving Hladyshchenko, chair of the Sense Bank supervisory board.
- Vadym Stolar, an MP from the court-banned Opposition Platform – For Life party, confirmed that NABU and SAPO were searching his property as part of Operation "Forrest Gump."
- NABU later said the case involved UAH 150 million in cash, which, according to the investigation, was channelled through a series of shell-company accounts and brought into legal circulation to post bail for one of the defendants in the Midas case.
- Former deputy head of the Presidential Office Iryna Mudra later confirmed that searches had been conducted at her home on August 19, that she had been served with a notice of suspicion and a motion seeking a preventive measure, but that she had not been detained. She is preparing for a court hearing.
- On 20 August, NABU released new recordings of conversations involving figures in the Forest Gump case—the second part of the investigation, titled Themis. The case concerns a scheme to seize real estate and other assets through unauthorised interference with the Ministry of Justice’s information (automated) networks.
- On 20 August, a prosecutor from the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) named all the individuals mentioned in connection with NABU’s Forest Gump and Themis operations.
