The scandalous employee of the Prosecutor General's Office, Roman Mudry (also known as Mazuryk), could not be dismissed from civil service, despite the fact that the department in which he worked as deputy head was liquidated back in 2021.
The Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors (QDCP) did not support the motion to dismiss Mudry, submitted by the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office.
Mudryi held the position of deputy head of the department for supervision of security agencies, fiscal and border services. In May 2021, this department was liquidated, and a new one was created in its place - the department for supervision of compliance with laws by security agencies.
The number of staff units was reduced from 79 to 39. Formally, Mudry's position ceased to exist. He was twice offered to transfer to other vacancies in the Prosecutor General's Office, but he agreed only to management positions - at the level of Deputy Prosecutor General or Head of the Regional Prosecutor's Office. He did not apply for specific vacancies.
At the meeting of the Criminal Procedure Code, the prosecutor challenged the attempt to dismiss him, citing a number of legal norms. In particular, he indicated that:
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did not receive a warning about release;
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he was not provided with a complete list of administrative vacancies;
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the Constitutional Court's decision declared unconstitutional a clause in the law that allows dismissal due to reorganization;
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The warning did not mention the fact of dismissal from the prosecutor's office.
The KDKP supported these arguments, noting that the dismissal motion contradicted the principle of the rule of law.
Mudry became known to the public after journalist Mykhailo Tkach's investigation for the UP "Who is fighting for Russian business in Ukraine." The material recorded Mudry meeting with Leonid Ashkenazi, a figure associated with representing the interests of Russians in Ukraine.
Mudry then explained that he had not come to Ashkenazi, but to meet with Samvel Hakobyan, who, however, was waiting in the car at that moment. After the publication of the investigation, he was expelled from the Task Force, an interdepartmental group to identify and seize Russian assets.
At the same time, Mudryi stated that journalists had spread false information and initiated an internal investigation into himself.
This situation raises a new wave of questions about personnel policy in the Prosecutor General's Office. How did it happen that after the liquidation of a structural unit and official removal from a key group, a prosecutor associated with a reputational scandal still remains in the system?
The KDKP effectively put a legal shield around Mudry. The lack of a full warning, an incomplete list of vacancies, the Constitutional Court, and formal procedural arguments — all of this allowed one of the most controversial prosecutors to remain in the system.
