All suspects charged in Operation Midas are named

Journalists have recognized all of the people charged by the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in its main investigation into corruption on the state-owned nuclear vitality firm Energoatom.

Supply: Radio Liberty

Particulars: The investigative journalism venture Skhemy has discovered that along with Tymur Mindich (referred to as "Karlson" within the NABU recordsdata), former vitality ministry adviser Ihor Myroniuk ("Rocket"), Dmytro Basov, Energoatom's government director for safety ("Tenor"), and Oleksandr Tsukerman ("Sugarman"), notices of suspicion have been served on Ihor Fursenko ("Roshyk"), Lesia Ustymenko and Liudmyla Zorina.

5 of the suspects have been detained, and two of them – Tymur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman – have left Ukraine.

NABU recognized "Roshyk" because the accountant on the so-called "again workplace". Within the recordings, he’s heard saying that "carrying a field of money will not be precisely a pleasure".

The journalists report that Ihor Fursenko is registered as a sole dealer specialising in IT consultancy. Others had saved his cellphone quantity of their contacts as "Ihor, works for Mykhailo Tsukerman".

Lesia Ustymenko and Liudmyla Zorina are additionally registered as sole merchants.

Background:

• Mindich is alleged to have exerted affect over former vitality minister Herman Halushchenko and former defence minister Rustem Umierov. The allegation was made by the prosecution in the course of the listening to of a petition introduced by a NABU detective in search of the detention of Ihor Myroniuk.
• NABU's investigation signifies that tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from Energoatom have been laundered below the duvet of complicit officers.
• The alleged scheme was considerably crude: companies that wished to promote items or companies to Energoatom needed to pay a 10-15% kickback or face non-payment and elimination from the provider listing – a mechanism dubbed the "tollgate", because you both share your margin or you might be left standing at closed doorways.
• The ringleader is alleged to be Tymur Mindich ("Karlson"), a businessman, former affiliate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and co-owner of Kvartal 95, the Ukrainian TV manufacturing firm that Zelenskyy based earlier than he turned president. Mindich left Ukraine simply hours earlier than the NABU search started.
• The house of former vitality minister Herman Halushchenko ("Professor" or "Hera" on the tapes) was searched on 10 November. Sources say that Halushchenko remains to be an influential determine within the sector by the present vitality minister, Svitlana Hrynchuk, and numerous managers that he put in previous to his dismissal in July 2025.

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