Former MP Maksym Mykytas was at top aide Iryna Mudra’s home when anti-corruption agencies arrived for search, Ukrainska Pravda sources say

Former MP Maksym Mykytas was at the home of Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the President's Office, when the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) arrived to carry out searches.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources in political circles, as reported by Mykhailo Tkach

Details: Mykytas can be heard on tape recordings released by NABU making arrangements for bail to be posted for former energy minister Herman Halushchenko.

Ukrainska Pravda sources in political circles said that when NABU and SAPO arrived at Mudra's home on 19 August to carry out searches, Mykytas was there.

Background:

• On the morning of 19 August, sources told Ukrainska Pravda that NABU and SAPO were conducting searches as part of a special operation at premises belonging to MP Vadym Stolar, who was elected to parliament from the now-banned Opposition Platform – For Life party, and Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the President's Office. Stolar confirmed that investigative actions were being carried out at his home and said he was cooperating with NABU.
• In recordings of conversations released by NABU, Mykytas appears to be asking for the amount needed to post bail for Halushchenko to be "channelled" through companies under his control.

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