Overview
- Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, which finalized the paperwork Tuesday, sent a translated extradition request and 24 volumes of evidence to Israel’s Justice Ministry.
- The request seeks the return of Tymur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman, suspects in the Midas corruption case who are in Israel.
- Mindich holds Israeli citizenship and left Ukraine shortly before charges in November, while Tsukerman also fled the country.
- NABU drafted the requests and submitted them for approval two weeks earlier, and prosecutors then corrected procedural and technical errors before dispatching the file.
- Midas is Ukraine’s largest graft probe under President Zelensky, targeting alleged schemes at Energoatom and in defense procurement, and reporting has flagged visits to Israel by a lawyer tied to Andriy Yermak and the Ukrainian ambassador that sources said aimed to influence testimony.