““In recent days, claims have been circulating on the Internet that the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Rustem Umyerov, allegedly left the country and refuses to return to Ukraine. This information is not true””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In recent days, claims have been circulating on the Internet that the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Rustem Umyerov, allegedly left the country and refuses to return to Ukraine. This information is not true. The Secretary of the National Security Council is on a planned official business trip. As of today, he works in the USA, where he conducts a number of working consultations and meetings aimed at strengthening international support for Ukraine,” the message reads.
According to the CPD, Umerov remains “in constant working contact with the state leadership, fulfills all assigned tasks and continues work on key issues of security, defense and humanitarian policy.”
Umerov himself did not comment on the message. Earlier, he reacted to the data of the investigation in the case of energy corruption regarding the possible influence on him “Any attempts to connect my work in the Ministry of Defense with the “influence” of some persons are groundless,” said Umyerov, who was previously the Minister of Defense.
On November 11, the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Serhiy Savitskyi, said that Timur Mindich, the former business partner of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi for “Kvartal 95”, had influence on the former Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko (now the Minister of Justice) and the former Minister of Defense Rustem Umyerov (now the Secretary of the NSDC).
NABU and SAP consider Mindich to be the head of a criminal organization that organized “large-scale corruption schemes” in the energy sector. On November 10, NABU announced the disclosure of the activities of a criminal organization whose main activity was “systematic obtaining of illegal benefits from the counterparties of Energoatom in the amount of 10% to 15% of the value of contracts.” NABU claims that funds were legalized through a back office in the center of Kyiv, through which about 100 million dollars passed.
Mindych, who, according to law enforcement sources, left Ukraine shortly before the November 10 search, has not yet commented on the situation.