“The planned offensive on anti-corruption bodies, which had already dismantled the Ukrainian media, had to protect the top corrupt officials: from several ministers and MPs to the former Presidential Business Partners. Fatal for Bankova could attempts the National Anti -Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) to investigate cases relevant to the ex -national unity Alexei Chernyshov and the co -owner of the Studio “Quarter 95””, – WRITE ON: ua.news
The planned offensive on anti-corruption bodies, which had already dismantled the Ukrainian media, had to protect the top corrupt officials: from several ministers and MPs to the former Presidential Business Partners.
Fatal for Bankova could attempts the National Anti -Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) to investigate cases relevant to the ex -national unity of Alexei Chernyshov and the co -owner of the Quartal 95 studio, the businessman Timur Mindic.
The latter, according to investigative journalists, allegedly prepared suspicion of stealing. In order to prevent such a turn of events, the power top, then instantly issued Law No. 12414, which subordinated NABU and SAP to the Attorney General and allowed to remove the cases of top officials.
UA.News tells who Timur Mindich was, for whom the scandalous law voted for the sake of Bankova, and why he was interested in anti -corruption authorities.
Former Business Partner of Zelensky and Kolomoisky
The person involved in the NABU case on the theft of Timur Mindic for the first time “illuminated” in the media of 2018 as an oligarch’s business partner Igor Kolomoisky in Developch and other projects, as well as one of the co-owners of the Quarter 95. According to Kolomoisky, Mindic just introduced him to the future president.
After the inauguration of Vladimir Zelensky in 2019, the former co -owner of Privatbank Kolomoisky, who was accused of fraud, returned from Israel to Ukraine. During that period, Mindic was often associated between the oligarch and the president, who was also associated with another businessman of the Privat group Mikhail Kiperman.
In 2021, the details of these relations revealed the edition “Investigation. Info ”with reference to Pandora Papers (the leakage of confidential documents on offshore companies published by the International Consortium of ICIJ investigators).
The fused documents are partially confirmed the scheme Transfer of funds from the structures of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky to offshore companies of associates of the future president. According to the sources of “Investigation.Info”, part of the funds was transferred through the Cyprus branch “Privatbank”, through which the oligarch could “laund up” millions, at least one of the companies of the heads of “Quarter 95” had an account with this bank.
Like most high -ranking persons in Pandora Papers, the Quarter 95 representatives, including Boris Shefir, explained that they defended their interests because of offshore because “the constant business under threat of bandits that come to power.”
Timur’s key interests
Nationwide telecommunication. In August 2021, according to investigative journalists, then the first assistant to the President Sergey Shefir together with Timur Mindicz registered Next Line Production, which specialized in the production of films and TV programs.
However, the scandals were more in the other company, which is associated with Mindic – Kinocat. It was created in 2017, and since 2019 it began to participate in public procurement. It was this video producer who broadcast Volodymyr Zelensky’s press marathon in 2019 and celebrations before the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence.
At the end of 2021, “Kinocat”, according to Bihus.info, got 9 million UAH from the Parliamentary TV channel “Rada” for the development of the concept and new programs. And from the beginning of a full -scale invasion, the company produces content for this state TV channel, which is broadcast in the national television television “Uniform News”. In three years, Kinokit signed agreements with the Council for more than UAH 350 million. For example, the contract was signed in January 2024, providing for state financing of more than UAH 104 million per year. At the same time, the owner of Kinokit, who received millions from the State TV channel “Rada”, was a legal adviser to the British company, controlled by Timur Mindich.
Amber business. In January 2022, it became known that the Volyn Regional Council agreed to reorganize the municipal enterprise “Volyn Natrodresurs” into a joint -stock company. After the reorganization, PJSC concentrated the largest amber production in Ukraine and had the largest copper deposit in Europe. The financial circulation of the enterprise was estimated at more than 1 billion per year.
As our money wrote, the newly created joint -stock company was prepared for a private investor. Their rights to the company stated Metropolitan plant “Emerad”, which began to demand from the Volyn public utilities repayment of debt 62 million UAH. The private plant allegedly borrowed these funds to the public utilities in 2017 to pay for the State Geogadras for special permits for the production of amber and copper ores. At the same time the beneficiary of the Emerad plant was Timur Mindich.
Cases in the energy sector. In the early years of the presidency of Zelensky energy at the Presidential Office, in particular the balancing of interests between Rinat Akhmetov and Igor Kolomoisky, as the media wrote, was engaged in the media. But later he gave way to Timur Minedich.
The latter allegedly had a significant influence on the management of state “Energoatom” and “Naftogaz”. In particular, he was lobbied by the head of Naftogaz Alexei Chernyshov, who was then headed by the Ministry of Community and Territories, and was also a curator of then Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko.
It was in the energy inspector later that investigations began, which threw the shadow on Mindic. In August 2024, NABU and SAP stated that Exposed Million theft for the purchase of transformers. Suspicion was informed by the former in. at. Chairman of the Board of Kharkivoblenergo Konstantin Logvinenko and several more.
According to the Center for Combating Corruption (CPC), the suspect in the organization of the criminal scheme is Leonid Dindch, a relative of Timur Mindic. Law enforcement officers detained him while trying to escape from Ukraine.
«V.O. Kharkivoblenergo CEO Konstantin Logvinenko in a collusion with Leonid Mindic, who controlled a number of companies-suppliers, created an organized group, according to NABU ”, according to NABU” – It was discussed in the message.
Investigators exposed an overestimation of prices by UAH 132.5 million, but the contracts were partially executed, in particular due to NABU actions, which reduced the total amount of losses to UAH 12.5 million. In general, according to the CPC, Leonid Mindic is suspected of stealing at the purchase of JSC Kharkivoblenergo for almost UAH 650 million.
Odessa port plant. Separately, investigative journalists The case of the Odessa port plant (OPP), which, according to them, can lead to NABU detectives to the Presidential Office. Last October, it was reported that NABU and SAP had completed the investigation in criminal proceedings on a large -scale equipment at the Odessa Port Plant, which caused millions of losses to the state.
Earlier, Censor edition. None wrote about testimony which was given by the former deputy head of the State Property Fund Sergey Ignatovsky in the case of Dmitry Sennichenko, former head of the Fund. Ignatovsky argued that at the instructions from the Presidential Office in 2020, the competition for the selection of supplier of Delivery raw materials for the IPP was canceled. After that, the PDM chairman signed the recommendations on the Supervisory Board of the IPP that the competition should be canceled.
“After the competition is canceled, about a month later, Sennychenko said that we did the right thing, that they canceled the competition that we are satisfied in the President’s office that Agt will now bring us money for it. He wrote some amount of money in US dollars, I do not remember the amount, but it was hundreds of thousands of dollars. I replied that I do not play such games and I will not take part in it. He did not like my answer. Also, according to Sennichenko, communication with the President’s office was provided – says Ignatovsky’s testimony.
Tenders for construction companies. In the environment of Timur, the mineral community activists especially distinguish Igor Khmelev, who appears in NABU materials. He headed a number of companies from the orbit of the Privat group, was previously the manager of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, and later began to work on Mindic.
In the field of view of the media, Khmelev got after the investigation of bihus.info. Journalists Written About persons who got into the President’s office as freelance advisers and were related to several large tenders for the reconstruction of housing destroyed by the Russians.
On these tenders, firms with obviously fully fictional or fictional workers were ardently won. Among the persons were Elina Elyanov, who was a co-owner of Eventus Management and her main business partner Igor Khmelev. The construction company related to them suddenly received a huge state order for more than UAH 600 million. to rebuild the home damaged by the Russians in Irpen. Journalists have discovered a few more unexpected multimillion -dollar tenders related to new advisers in OP.
Anti -Corruption Investigations and Exit Abroad
Although NABU and SAP were not presented with any suspicion of the Quarter 95 co -owner Timur Minedich, on July 25 the media reported that he was is In Austria and he was repeatedly seen in Vienna. It was suggested that a businessman was approaching the President’s office against the background of anti -corruption investigations and hid from the National Anti -Corruption Bureau.
According to another version In Vienna he had to persuade Viceremier Alexei Chernyshov to return to Ukraine in President Vladimir Zelensky. Because the escape of the Viceremier significantly damaged the presidential reputation.
The Ukrainian media did not exclude: Chernyshov promised that the NABU case against him, according to the Tatrov scheme (which operated during the Prosecutor of Benedictova) would be transferred to the President’s more loyal to the President’s office. In this case, Chernyshov will not threaten anything.
Meanwhile SBU staff delayed And she sent to the pre -trial deposit of NABU detectives in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions Ruslan Magamedrasulov, who was engaged in documenting Timur Mindic. Earlier, the SBU and the Office of the Prosecutor General without a court order conducted about 80 searches in 19 NABU staff in different regions of Ukraine. These actions were argued by the fact that Magamedrasolov was exposed and detained on suspicion of “business management in Russia”
Commenting on the course of these events, MP Yaroslav Zhelesnyak He noticed : “And where is Mindich himself? The information that it is hiding in Vienna is not true. He was there, but by passing. He was in London. Then he moved to a permanent place in Israel (there is no extradition), and while the council is urgently trying to correct the thrash that was made for the sake of him… …
Why NABU became interested in the apartment of Minescha
Timur’s apartments in Kiev, where the President of Zelensky arranged A surprise for a birthday during quarantine in 2021, now even more interested in the media. According to the People’s Deputy Alexei Goncharenko, NABU detectives in the framework of the investigation were carried out listening The apartments of Mind.
“The NABU was drilled from Bogolyubov’s apartment. His apartment is above the apartment of Mindica and from there were able to drill and listen to the apartment of Mindich. Bogolyubov and taken out abroad for this assistance. The only problem is that they did not listen to long. Several months. I hope there will be a lot of useful information on Mines and all corruption that happens at Zelensky ”, – Goncharenko wrote.
One of the first insans about the Kiev apartment of Mindic in a house near the Verkhovna Rada on Hrushevsky 9A, where the apartments of other members of the business group “Privat” are also located, the People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak shared. He posted a photo of “ Gold ” toilets and other attributes of luxurious life in the style of officials of the period Viktor Yanukovych.
As explained by public activists familiar with political backstage, this apartment was a “back office” of the team of Mindic, where closed meetings were held, shadow commercial schemes were discussed, as well as political “contracts”. That is why this apartment was interested in detectives of anti -corruption bodies. What happens to this business and documented materials remains an open question.