“The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that since the beginning of the investigation into energy corruption, he has not been in contact with his former business partner, Timur Mindych”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The most important thing is sentences for those who are guilty. The president of a country at war cannot have friends,” he said.
On November 13, Zelenskyi signed a decree implementing the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on sanctions against two individuals involved in the energy corruption case: Timur Mindych and Oleksandr Zukerman. Among the 18 restrictive measures introduced against each of them are the blocking of assets, the deprivation of awards, and the prevention of the transfer of capital outside of Ukraine.
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On November 10, NABU announced the disclosure of the activities of a criminal organization, the main focus of which was “systematic obtaining of illegal benefits from Energoatom’s counterparties 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.
On November 10, it was also reported that NABU detectives had searched Timur Mindich.
Mindich, who, according to law enforcement sources, left Ukraine shortly before the November 10 search, has not yet commented on the situation.
NABU informed eight persons of suspicion in the case of corruption in the energy sector. “Schemes” published a complete list.
According to sources in the law enforcement agencies, this is a businessman, co-founder of the studio “Kvartal-95” Timur Mindich (code name “Carlson” on NABU tapes), ex-adviser of the Minister of Energy Ihor Mironyuk (“Rocket”), executive director for security of “Energoatom” Dmytro Basov (“Tenor”) and four more “employees” of the so-called “back office for money laundering”: among them Oleksandr Zukerman (“Sugarman”), Ihor Fursenko (“Ryoshik”), Lesya Ustymenko and Lyudmila Zorina. In addition, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office reported the suspicion of illegal enrichment to the former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov. He has not yet commented on it.