Overview
- NABU and SAPO say a 15-month investigation uncovered a network that extorted Energoatom subcontractors, supported by thousands of hours of recordings and cash seizures.
- Authorities conducted roughly 70 searches, detained five suspects and filed charges against seven individuals in the dismantled scheme.
- Prosecutors named Tymur Mindich — a longtime associate of Volodymyr Zelensky and co-owner of Kvartal 95 — as the suspected organizer, and investigators say he left Ukraine shortly before raids.
- Investigators searched the home of Justice Minister German Galushchenko, heightening political stakes in a sector critical to wartime power supply.
- Zelensky urged full cooperation with anti-corruption bodies and called for sanctions, while European partners weigh the case’s implications for reforms ahead of an EU ministers’ gathering in Lviv on December 10.