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NABU and SAP have completed the pre-trial investigation in the “Midas” case concerning a high-level criminal organization whose members built an extensive corruption scheme to influence the operations of strategic state-sector enterprises, in particular JSC “NNEGC Energoatom,” obtain illicit gains, and launder funds.
As reported by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the materials in the case have been opened.
“Members of the group systematically received illicit gains from contractors of JSC ‘NNEGC Energoatom’ and enterprises under the management of the Ministry of Energy, in the amount of 10% to 15% of contract values. The function of legalizing the illegally obtained funds was assigned to a separate office of the criminal organization,” the statement says.
The investigation established that the amounts accumulated and moved to this office in cash from the energy sector over 2020–2025 years totaled more than $111 million and EUR12 million. Detectives also established facts of funds being received by the criminal organization from other sources. Various financial instruments were used to launder money, including cryptocurrency, securities, and a foreign investment fund.
“NABU and SAP have taken measures to seize the criminal organization’s assets both in Ukraine and abroad. Measures to search for and seize the organization’s assets will continue. From the materials, several other proceedings have been separated, in which investigations continue into facts of giving and receiving illicit gains in the energy sector, as well as money laundering in the interests of other persons,” the agency emphasized.
Reminder:
On 10 November 2025, NABU and SAP carried out the large-scale “Midas” operation aimed at exposing high-level corruption in the energy sector. The main activity of the criminal organization was the systematic receipt of illicit gains from contractors of NNEGC “Energoatom” in the amount of 10% to 15% of contract values. NABU and SAP released some audio recordings from the investigation. Among the case’s figures are a close friend of the president and well-known businessman Timur Mindich, former Minister of Energy and current Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko, a former advisor to the Minister of Energy, and others.
Anti-corruption agencies announced suspicions against seven persons of participating in the large-scale corruption scheme in the energy sector and detained five. Suspicions were issued to businessman and co-founder of the studio “Kvartal-95” Timur Mindich (on the NABU tapes the code name “Karlson”), former advisor to the Minister of Energy Ihor Myroniuk (“Rocket”), Energoatom’s Chief Security Officer Dmytro Basov (“Tenor”), and four other “employees” of the so-called “back office for legalizing funds”: among them Oleksandr Tsukerman (“SugarMan”), Ihor Fursenko (“Ryoshyk”), Lesia Ustymenko, and Liudmyla Zorina. Former Vice Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov (“Che Guevara”) was also charged.
NABU detectives established that about 100 million dollars passed through the office of the scheme’s figures in the Ukrainian energy sector.
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