“On the evening of November 11, NABU published a new part of the investigation into corruption in the energy sector, and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Chernyshov, was informed of the suspicion of illegal enrichment. Some Ukrainian news telegram channels with several million subscribers ignore the information about the NABU’s exposure.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Telegram channels
Details: On the evening of November 11, NABU and SAP shared the next part of the investigation into corruption in the energy sector. The operation is codenamed “Midas”.
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This time, the law enforcement officers documented how the participants of the corruption scheme transferred funds to the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Chernyshov, who was referred to internally as Che Guevara.
Subsequently, Chernyshov was informed of the suspicion of illegal enrichment.
“Ukrainian Pravda” monitored Telegram channels popular among Ukrainians and found that they ignored information about the investigation and suspicion of Chernyshov.
Among them are: “Truha Ukraine” (over 3 million subscribers), “All-Seeing Eye: Ukraine” (1.1 million), “Real War” (1.5 million), “Times of Ukraine: News Ukraine” (2.5 million), “Insider UA” (2 million).
In addition, publications close to the OP, in particular “Vertikal”, are silent about the NABU case (157 thousand subscribers).
Earlier on November 11, blogger, volunteer and public activist Serhii Sternenko spread information about “jeans” among the Ukrainian segment of Telegram.
He shared a list of publications that published the same message, where they tried to discredit the work of NABU.
At the same time, the list of these TG channels was silent about the investigation of the “Midas” bureau.
The same Telegram channels in the summer of 2025 ignored the protests in Ukraine because adoption of the draft law, which effectively eliminated the independence of anti-corruption bodies NABU and SAP.
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What preceded:
- Figures of NABU investigation, under the cover of officials, laundered tens of millions of dollars from the operator of the Ukrainian nuclear power industry “Energoatom”.
- By according to NABU datathe money laundering scheme is quite primitive and cynical: if a private business wanted to work (sell goods or provide services) with Energoatom, it had to pay a kickback of 10% to 15%. If you refuse, you will not receive payment and you will be removed from the list of suppliers.
- The organizer of the scheme was a businessman, co-owner of “Kvartal-95” and former partner of President Zelensky, Timur Mindich (appears in NABU materials under the nickname “Carlson”), who managed to leave the country just a few hours before the NABU searches.
- Also, on November 10, former Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko (on NABU records he appears under the nickname “Professor” or “Hera”) was searched, who, according to EP interlocutors, still maintains his influence on the country’s energy through the current Minister of Energy Svitlana Grynchuk.
- According to NABU, the activities of the “money laundering” office, which was headed by a man nicknamed “Sugarman”, controlled by a figure in the investigation nicknamed “Carlson”, i.e. Timur Mindich, a businessman close to President Zelensky.
- The law enforcement officers documented how the participants of the corruption scheme in the energy industry transferred funds to the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, who was called Che Guevara in internal communication.