Former MP Maksym Mykytas was at the home of Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the President's Office, when the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) arrived to carry out searches.

Mudra was dismissed hours earlier after anti-graft agencies launched a new probe implicating current and former lawmakers, senior presidential officials.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine also searched two locations