“Businessman, co-owner of studio “Kvartal-95” Timur Mindych and ex-business partner of “Studio Kvartal-95”, ex-first assistant to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi Borys Shefir discussed where to get money to pay bail for former deputy prime minister Oleksiy Chernyshov, who is suspected of abuse of office and receiving a bribe, the SAP prosecutor reported in the High Anti-Corruption Court.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: prosecutor Serhiy Savytskyi during the meeting of the State Security Committee, which is considering a request for the application of a preventive measure to the figure in the case of embezzlement in the energy sector, former adviser to the Minister of Energy Ihor Myronyuk
Savitsky’s direct speech: “There is a conversation with the person marked “Shefir Serhii Nakhmanovych”. There is a conversation about Oleksiy Mykhailovych Chernyshov. In particular, in terms of bringing him to justice and choosing a preventive measure.
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The visitor (Shefir – ed.) said: “I told him about the bail: If you have an official part, then unofficially we will participate in everything. Let’s agree.
Mindich: I told him that it was me too. I don’t have those…
Visitor: No, well, the box office will participate (it is meant that from some cash register, which is in all of them)”.
Details: Savitskyi also read another part of the conversations, which related to Chernyshov’s seized property.
Direct speech of the prosecutor: “Visitor regarding seized property: Lesha himself is not a poor man, to put it mildly.
Mindich: He had everyone arrested…
Visitor: No, it doesn’t matter. They arrested what was declared, and I think Lesha has such a large scale, how he lives – a car park, a service park, a house like this…
Mindich: He is rented…
Visitor: Rented. Well, you understand how much it costs. 10 thousand.
Mindich: AndI think more. 15.
Visitor: I asked him, and you yourself are going to participate. He says: Of course, I have already given 20 million dollars to 2 people (as a deposit).
Mindich says: In such a situation, it sounds ugly, but why do you need those 6 apartments?”.
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Prehistory:
- On the morning of November 10, the sources of “Ukrainian Pravda” reported that NABU detectives came to search Timur Mindych, a businessman and co-owner of the “Kvartal 95” studio, an associate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
- Subsequently, UP sources reported that Mindich left the territory of Ukraine a few hours before the search.
- Later, NABU confirmed that, together with SAP, they are conducting a large-scale operation to expose corruption in the energy sector. According to anti-corruption experts, the participants in the investigation built a large-scale corruption scheme to influence strategic enterprises of the state sector, in particular JSC NAEK Energoatom.
- The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office released part of the audio recordings from the investigation of a large-scale corruption scheme in the energy sector. The operation is codenamed “Midas”.
- “Energoatom” JSC confirmed that on November 10, the company’s office was being investigated by representatives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
- In his evening address, Zelenskyy stated in general terms that he supports the NABU and SAP investigation into corruption in the energy sector, which also includes his associate, but did not name any names.
