“The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, promised that the government would conduct an audit of state-owned companies and submit the results to law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Zelenskyi and Svyridenko. Photo: OP The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, promised that the government would conduct an audit of state-owned companies and submit the results to law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies.
Source: Zelensky’s address on November 14
Direct speech: “Today was a report by the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Svyridenko. The government has already started an audit of all state-owned companies, and the results of the audit will be with law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies, and the government must provide them with full support. That’s what I’m counting on.”
What preceded:
- On the morning of November 10, it became known that NABU is conducting searches of businessman Timur Mindich and Minister of Justice Herman Galushchenko (he has already been suspended from position). At the same time, UP sources reported that Mindich had fled abroad a few hours before the searches.
- On the same day, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine reported that it had uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme for the embezzlement of funds in the energy sector, as well as made public audio recordings of the negotiations of the participants in this case.
- On November 11, journalists revealed the names of all those involved in the investigation of mass corruption at Energoatom, who received suspicion from NABU. According to the “Schemes” project, Timur Mindich (who is called “Carlson” in the NABU audio recordings – ed.), ex-adviser to the Minister of Energy Ihor Myronyuk (“Rocket”), Dmytro Basov (“Tenor”), executive director of security at “Energoatom”, Oleksandr Zukermana (“Sugarman”), Ihor Fursenko (“Ryoshik”), Lesya Ustymenko and Lyudmila Zorina received suspicions.
- Five persons from the list of suspects have been detained. Two of them – Mindich and Zukerman – left Ukraine. Ustimenko and Zorina were released on bail on November 13.
- On November 13, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions against the businessman, co-owner of the studio “Kvartal-95” and his associate Timur Mindich and businessman Oleksandr Zukerman.
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