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Ukraine has still not received a response from Israel to requests for the extradition of businessman Tymur Mindich and his partner Oleksandr Tsukerman, subjects in the “Midas” case, although the Prosecutor General’s Office sent Israel a request for the extradition of both subjects back in March. The Israeli side has received all relevant documents. However, there is no official response so far.
About this 10 August said SAP head Oleksandr Klymenko during a briefing on the agencies’ work, Suspilne reports. Journalists asked whether there was any progress in the case and whether a response had been received from the Israeli side.
“Well, no response has been received by us yet. That is, the appropriate requests were sent, but we are waiting for a reaction from that side,” said Oleksandr Klymenko, head of the SAP.
The official request for the extradition of Mindich and Tsukerman to the Israeli Ministry of Justice was sent by the Prosecutor General’s Office on 31 March 2026 of this year. Since then, no official reaction from the Israeli side has been made public.
Operation “Midas”
Both businessmen are the main figures in the large-scale Operation “Midas,” which NABU announced on 10 November 2025 of this year. According to the investigation, the scheme’s organizers received up to 15% of contract values from Energoatom as kickbacks, and laundered the money through back offices in central Kyiv. According to the investigation, the suspects managed to launder 100 million dollars.
Tymur Mindich, co-owner of “Kvartal 95” with the code name “Karlson,” and Oleksandr Tsukerman with the code name “Sugarman” left the country before the searches began. They were later sanctioned and placed on an international wanted list, which prompted the Ukrainian side to ask Israel for their extradition.
Tsukerman is litigating, and NABU acknowledges procedural difficulties
Earlier, Informator reported that Tsukerman filed a lawsuit against Zelensky over the National Security and Defense Council sanctions, following a similar step by Mindich. Both subjects are trying to challenge the restrictive measures imposed on them in court while the extradition procedure is ongoing.
We also wrote that NABU earlier named the main difficulties with the extradition of Mindich and Tsukerman, noting that the suspects had learned to use the circumstances of the war to their advantage. This explains why the process of surrendering the subjects is being delayed despite the official requests sent.
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