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Another Top Zelensky Aide Fired Amid Corruption Probe, House Raid

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by Tyler Durden
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Another top official has been dismissed in Ukraine's government, accompanied with the usual police raids on homes amid fresh corruption probes... but this time the scandal once again runs straight through Zelensky's office.

"Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau said it had launched an operation linked to an alleged criminal organization involving current and former MPs and senior officials in the presidential administration," EuroNews reports.

"Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the deputy head of the presidential office Iryna Mudra on Wednesday, his office announced, on the same day the country's anti-corruption investigators launched a major operation targeting an alleged criminal organization involving politicians and senior government officials," the report adds. A presidential office statement confirmed: "Iryna Mudra shall be dismissed from the post of deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine."

Via Ukrinform

While no names have been disclosed as specifically part of the fresh ongoing actions and investigation by the NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), Ukrainian media has cited sources alleging that senior officials from the President’s Office of Ukraine also involved.

And so Iryna Mudra 'shock' dismissal on the very day of these raids and newly unveiled investigations is obviously more than just coincidence. 

Ukrainian and regional media says her properties are being searched: 

According to information from Ukrainian parliament member Oleksiy Honcharenko, investigators searched the premises of Iryna Mudra, deputy head of the President’s Office. He gave no further details about the case.

The outlet Zerkalo Nedeli reports that the NABU and SAPO operation also involves Vadym Stolar, a lawmaker from the former Opposition Platform — For Life party, and Maksym Mykytas, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament, in addition to Mudra. Officials from the Justice Ministry and representatives of Sense Bank (formerly Alfa-Bank Ukraine) also appear in the case.

The operation was code-named “Forrest Gump.” NABU released a fragment of an audio recording capturing conversations among people named in the case, in which they mention “four sacks” and the President’s Office. “Only a moron would register stolen money and tuition payments in his own children’s names,” a voice on the recording also says.

All of this follows on a series of prior investigations by NABU and SAPO into corruption at the highest levels of government, which has taken down many officials and been an ongoing source of embarrassment for Ukraine.

And as a reminder, back in May of this year:

Ukraine’s anti-corruption court Thursday ordered the arrest of Andriy Yermak, a close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former head of his administration, on money-laundering charges.

The court also set bail at 140 million hryvnias ($3.19 million), which would allow Yermak, who has denied the allegations, to be released pending a final ruling in his case.

However, these investigations tended to get spun as if 'heroic' Zelensky is on a mission, destroying the rot from within...

And there's this from the same journalist, Mark Ames...

Every shocking Zelensky corruption scandal - and they keep getting worse - is PR’d away as “proof that Ukraine is a functioning western democracy fighting corruption”, as if it’s always one corruption scandal away from turning the corner & becoming Denmark.

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