Prosecutor reveals 13 names in new anti-corruption cases

A prosecutor from the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) has revealed the list of the people mentioned in the Forrest Gump and Themis cases. This happened during a hearing at the High Anti-Corruption Court on choosing a pre-trial restriction for suspect Maksym Mykytas, a former MP.

Source: Anti-Corruption Action Centre

The following people have been mentioned in the Forrest Gump and Themis cases:

• Iryna Mudra, former deputy head of the President's Office
• Viktor Dubovyk, director-general of the Legal Policy Directorate at the President's Office
• Olena Ferens, Deputy Justice Minister
• Maksym Mykytas, former MP
• Vadym Stolar, serving MP
• Vasyl Astion, a businessman and former member of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council
• Mykola Hladyshenko, suspended head of the supervisory board of state-owned Sense Bank
• Oleh Stupak, chair of the management board of state-owned Sense Bank
• Liudmyla Snihur, head of a department at state-owned Sense Bank
• Valentyn Yelizarov, Mykytas's subordinate and head of Metrobud LLC
• Mykyta Tarkovskyi, linked to Mykytas
• Yehor Merkulov, Mykytas's driver and nominal head of Montage Service LLC
• Oleksandr Ostapenko, Mykytas's bodyguard and nominal director of Philosophy Development LLC

Background:

• On 19 August, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and SAPO reported about the Forrest Gump investigation into a criminal group that organised the legalisation of funds to pay bail for former energy and justice minister Herman Halushchenko. They used state-owned Sense Bank for this purpose.
• On 20 August, the anti-corruption agencies released the second part of the investigation, Themis, into how the same criminal group allegedly organised the raiding of real estate and businesses in Kyiv.

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