The courtroom determined to take into custody Lesia Ustymenko, one other suspect within the Energoatom cash theft scheme.
Supply: Suspilne, Ukrainian public broadcaster
Particulars: The chosen safety measure is a 60-day detention, with the choice of bail within the type of UAH 25 million.
That is the third arrest made on 12 November in connection to the Energoatom embezzlement case. Energoatom's government director and former adviser to the vitality minister Ihor Myroniuk had been detained right this moment as effectively.
All of the people charged by NABU within the large-scale corruption case involving Energoatom have been recognized by Radio Liberty.
The investigative journalism venture Skhemy has discovered that along with Tymur Mindich (often called "Karlson" within the NABU recordsdata), former Power Ministry adviser Ihor Myroniuk ("Rocket"), Energoatom's government director for safety Dmytro Basov ("Tenor"), and Oleksandr Tsukerman ("Sugarman"), notices of suspicion have been served on Ihor Fursenko ("Roshyk"), Lesia Ustymenko and Liudmyla Zorina.
Background:
- The Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has launched the third a part of Operation Midas, its investigation right into a large-scale corruption scheme at Energoatom.
- Suspects within the NABU investigation, who had been reportedly shielded by authorities officers, laundered tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from Energoatom.
- In accordance with NABU, the money-laundering scheme was considerably crude: companies that needed to promote items or companies to Energoatom needed to pay a 10-15% kickback or face non-payment and elimination from the provider record – 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 (known as "Karlson" within the NABU recordsdata), a businessman and co-owner of Kvartal 95, the Ukrainian TV manufacturing firm that Volodymyr Zelenskyy based earlier than he grew to become president. Mindich left Ukraine simply hours earlier than the NABU search started.
- The places of work of former vitality minister Herman Halushchenko ("Professor" or "Hera" on the tapes) had been additionally searched on 10 November. Economichna Pravda sources say that Halushchenko continued to be an influential determine within the sector by his successor, Svitlana Hrynchuk, and the numerous managers that he personally put in previous to his dismissal in July 2025.
- Zelenskyy's shut good friend Tymur 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 throughout the listening to of a petition introduced by a NABU detective looking for the detention of Ihor Myroniuk, one other suspect within the investigation.
- Prosecutors asserted that Mindich developed a bond with Halushchenko by his connections to Zelenskyy and the minister's private "patronage".
- Herman Halushchenko has been suspended as justice minister following a high-profile investigation by the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) into corruption at Energoatom.
- Energoatom's safety director, Dmytro Basov, has been ordered by the Excessive Anti-Corruption Courtroom to be arrested on suspicion of involvement in mass corruption within the vitality business. On NABU recordings, Basov appeared as "Tenor".
- The Excessive Anti-Corruption Courtroom dominated that former Power Ministry advisor Ihor Myroniuk be held in custody, with the choice of bail within the type of UAH 126 million. He’s beneath suspicion of a significant corruption case within the vitality business.
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