Overview
- Ukraine’s National Anti‑Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) publicly opened Operation Forrest Gump on Wednesday and released audio and a 24‑minute video that they say map an organised criminal group.
- Investigators carried out searches at several sites, reported arrests for organising and facilitating money‑laundering, and showed a seized document they described as a crisis communications plan for a Verkhovna Rada temporary probe.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra on the same day after searches at her workplace and home were reported, and media sources say she has been questioned by NABU.
- NABU alleges roughly 150 million hryvnia was laundered through state‑owned Sense Bank to pay bail linked to figures in the earlier Operation Midas Energoatom investigation, though Zelenskyy has not been named as a subject of the probe.
- The raids came just before a parliamentary vote on a new defence minister and follow public attacks by Mykhaylo Fedorov, which means the investigation could produce further personnel changes, greater scrutiny of state banks, and renewed EU and public pressure for stronger anti‑corruption reform.