SAPO and NABU to probe sources of bail funds posted for top Ukrainian suspects
NABU and SAPO will verify the origin of funds posted as bail for high-profile criminal suspects, SAPO Head Oleksandr Klymenko announced in a YouTube interview on Aug. 31.
The heads of SAPO and NABU announced they will investigate the sources of bail funds for top Ukrainian criminals. SAPO chief Oleksandr Klymenko made the announcement during a YouTube interview on August 31. Klymenko said that financial audits can be conducted without registering a separate criminal case. He explained that an already established monitoring mechanism exists within banks to flag suspicious transactions, which are then reported to the State Financial Monitoring Service for further investigation.
Klymenko emphasized that the investigation must rely on concrete evidence and not speculation. He also clarified that former MP Maksym Mykytas was not involved in the covert investigation that obtained audio recordings related to former Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra. The investigation into a corruption scheme involving the laundering of 150 million UAH ($3.6M) for bail in the Herman Halushchenko case was announced by NABU and SAPO on August 19.
Key figures in the case include Mudra, Maksym Mykytas, and Vadym Stolar. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Mudra from her post on August 19, and a court imposed pre-trial restrictions on Mykytas and Viktor Dubovyk on August 21. Mudra was remanded into custody for 60 days with a 20 million UAH ($485,000) bail on August 25.
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