NABU Energy Probe Escalates With FBI Liaison Meeting and Ministerial Resignations Filed
Investigators say the scheme laundered about $100 million, with cash images and audio clips now public.
Overview
- Zerkalo Nedeli reports NABU detectives met in Kyiv on November 11 with a newly rotated FBI representative who coordinates the bureau’s cooperation and maintains an office at NABU.
- Prime Minister Yuliya Sviridenko said resignation letters from Herman Galushchenko and Energy Ministry head Svetlana Grinchuk were sent to the Verkhovna Rada.
- Anti-corruption agencies carried out searches on November 10 targeting figures linked to Energoatom and business networks tied to Timur Mindich.
- NABU released audio fragments featuring conversations attributed to Mindich, Energoatom’s security executive Dmitry Basov, and former ministerial adviser Igor Mironyuk, alongside photos of seized foreign currency.
- Commentary split over the probe’s implications, with ex–prime minister Nikolay Azarov alleging U.S. direction and the German outlet Junge Welt asserting the investigation is effectively aimed at President Zelensky.