Overview
- Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said the Cabinet held an extraordinary meeting to suspend Herman Galushchenko and assigned Deputy Minister Lyudmyla Sugak to serve as acting justice minister.
- Galushchenko said he accepts the political decision to step aside during the inquiry and will contest the allegations through legal channels.
- NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office are conducting a sector-wide operation that has produced images of seized foreign currency and audio fragments involving Mindich, Energoatom representative Dmytro Basov, and adviser Ihor Mironyuk.
- Prosecutor Serhii Savytskyi told a court that investigators view Mindich as leading a scheme extracting 10–15% kickbacks from Energoatom contracts and exerting influence over former ministers, while ex-defense minister Rustem Umerov rejected any improper influence.
- Authorities reported five detentions and seven notices of suspicion, with more than 70 searches including at Energoatom and locations tied to Galushchenko, as media and a lawmaker reported that Mindich was not detained and had left Ukraine.