Mudra's defense team asking court, journalists to take critical look at prosecution's wording
The defense team for Iryna Mudra, the former deputy head of the President's Office who is suspected of involvement in corruption schemes involving money laundering and corporate raiding, is calling on the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) and media representatives to take a critical view of the statements made by the prosecutor in justifying the need to impose a preventive measure in the form of…
Iryna Mudra's defense team is urging both the High Anti-Corruption Court and journalists to scrutinize the prosecutor's language used to justify the call for preventive detention. At a recent hearing, the defense highlighted that a statement from the National Security and Defense Council about controlling corruption was not attributed to Mudra, and the context had been manipulated.
The attorney clarified that "control of corruption" refers to a World Bank indicator measuring a nation's resistance to corruption, a metric the defense argues was correctly applied in this case. They also pointed out that the prosecutor's excerpts from covert investigative actions are incomplete, potentially skewing the intended meaning.
Mudra's legal counsel pleaded with the court not to rely on subjective interpretations and requested the media to do the same. Defensively, they argued that there is no merit in imposing preventive detention, as Mudra has not changed her residence or traveled abroad, nor has the prosecutor sought court approval during ongoing covert investigations.
The defense reiterated that a preventive measure is not mandatory under the Code of Criminal Procedure and advocated for its outright rejection.
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