“Another active partner was discovered in the “gray cardinal” Timur Mindich. This is Ihor Chervonenko, the owner of the “Apteka Dobrogo dnya” pharmacy chain. As UA.News learned from its own sources, Mindich, who is publicly associated mainly with the media and the energy industry, long ago entered and firmly established himself in Igor Chervonenko’s business. The partnership combines one of the most influential “shadow” businessmen of the country and”, — write on: ua.news
Another active partner was discovered in the “gray cardinal” Timur Mindich. This is Ihor Chervonenko, the owner of the “Apteka Dobrogo dnya” pharmacy chain.
As it became known UA.News from his own sources, Mindich, who is publicly associated mainly with the media and energy industry, long ago entered and firmly established himself in Igor Chervonenko’s business. The partnership combines one of the most influential “shadow” businessmen of the country and a key player in the pharmaceutical market.
The publication’s insider source claims that Timur Mindich owns a stake in Ihor Chervonenko’s pharmaceutical business. However, businessmen are united not only by a common business, but also probably by friendship. According to our sources, Ihor Chervonenko visited Israel on September 19 this year to personally congratulate Mindich on his birthday.
Who is Ihor Chervonenko?
Ihor Chervonenko is the ultimate beneficial owner of one of the largest pharmacy chains in Ukraine – “Apteka Dobrogo dnya”, which is managed by companies related to Pharmastor LLC. In the public sphere, Chervonenko acts as the chairman of the Board of the Pharmacy Professional Association of Ukraine and is an active player in the market.
Also, Ihor Chervonenko is the younger brother of the former Minister of Transport and Communications, ex-Deputy Yevhen Chervonenko.
We will remind you about Timur Mindich
Timur Mindich, who turned 46 on September 19, is a close childhood friend of Volodymyr Zelenskyi. In business circles, he is known as a curator of private media assets and has a significant impact on the energy sector .
“Mindich’s star” rose in 2024-2025, when a number of influential ministers began to be associated with him – from the energy sector to the agricultural sector. In addition, the businessman is considered to be involved in the defense contracts of the Fire Point company, which over the last year has received billions of orders from the state for the production of drones. It was through this company that NABU appealed to the State Financial Monitoring Service with a request to disclose the movement of funds, but there are still no results.
His sphere of influence includes Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko, Minister of Ecology Svitlana Grinchuk and Minister of Agrarian Policy Vitaly Koval.
The authors of the investigation pay special attention to Mindich’s influence on the banking sector. It is about his possible connections with the management of Sens Bank and state-owned enterprises involved in energy purchases.
Also, Mindich, who is involved in the corruption investigation in the field of energy, probably also had influence on Rustem Umerov, former Minister of Defense. According to the SAP prosecutor, during 2025 the facts of criminal activity have been established Mindych in the field of energy by exerting influence on the Minister of Energy Galushchenko and in the field of defense — on the Minister of Defense Umyerov. The investigation believes that, through his connections, Mindich coordinated corruption processes in two strategic sectors — energy and defense.
As a result of the received information, journalists UA.News prepared several questions for Mr. Chervonenko. Igor Chervonenko’s assistant promised that the businessman would soon contact the journalists to personally answer the questions, but soon they called back to ask for an official request, which the editors had already prepared.
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