Overview
- The Interior Ministry database lists businessman Tymur Mindich and financier Oleksandr Tsukerman as wanted, with November 20 recorded as the date they went missing.
- Authorities say the pair are believed to be hiding from pre-trial investigators in the Midas case targeting alleged corruption in state energy contracting.
- Entries cite suspected offenses including large-scale money laundering and participation in a criminal organization, with an additional obstruction charge listed for Mindich.
- NABU and SAPO launched Operation Midas on November 10, conducted searches at Energoatom and officials’ residences, and released extensive wiretap excerpts from Mindich’s apartment.
- Investigators allege suppliers were forced to pay 10–15% kickbacks and laundered tens of millions of dollars, as the government moved to dissolve Energoatom’s supervisory board and received ministerial resignation letters.