“The Council will consider the resignation of the ministers of justice and energy due to the corruption scandal on November 18.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Photo: Yaroslav Zheleznyak / Telegram Source: People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak in social networks
Direct speech: “The issue of the dismissal of two corrupt officials from the positions of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Energy is at the top of the agenda on November 18.”
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Details: Zheleznyak reported that he himself brought the resolutions on the resignation of ministers to the Council.
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What preceded:
- Commenting on the corruption investigation in the energy industry, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ministers Galushchenko and Grynchuk should leave their posts, and instructed Prime Minister Yulia Svyridenko to submit their resignations.
- Figures of NABU investigation, under the cover of officials, laundered tens of millions of dollars through the Ukrainian nuclear energy operator “Energoatom”.
- The organizer of the scheme was Timur Mindych, a businessman, co-owner of “Kvartal-95” and former partner of President Zelenskyi, who managed to leave the country just a few hours before the NABU searches.
- Also, on November 10, former Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko, who still maintains his influence on the energy sector of the country through the current Minister of Energy Svitlana Grynchuk and many managers of this department, whom he personally appointed before his dismissal in July 2025, was searched.
