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NABU and SAP 4 November completed the pre-trial investigation in the “Midas” case concerning a corruption scheme that operated around JSC "NNEGC "Energoatom" and enterprises under the management of the Ministry of Energy. According to the investigation, the criminal organization received more than 111 million dollars and 12 million euros in illicit gains from contractors over the 2020–2025 years. The case’s figures included former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov and Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Halushchenko, and the money was laundered through a separate office created specifically for this purpose.
The completion of the pre-trial investigation was reported by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. According to the investigation, members of the group systematically received illicit benefits from Energoatom’s contractors and enterprises under the Ministry of Energy’s management in the amount of 10% to 15% of contract values.
The function of legalizing the illegally obtained funds was carried out by a separate office of the criminal organization. To launder the money, the suspects used various financial instruments — in particular cryptocurrency, securities, and a foreign investment fund. Detectives established that funds came into the organization’s possession from sources other than the energy sector as well.
During the investigation, NABU and SAP took measures to seize the criminal organization’s assets both in Ukraine and abroad, and these measures, the bureau reported, will continue. A number of separate proceedings have already been carved out from the case materials, in which investigations continue into the facts of giving and receiving illicit benefits in the energy sector, as well as money laundering in the interests of other persons.
How the Midas investigation unfolded
NABU and SAP launched Operation “Midas” on 10 November 2025, when detectives conducted dozens of searches of businessman Tymur Mindich, then-Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko, his former adviser Ihor Myroniuk, and at the state company’s office itself. In February 2026, NABU notified Herman Halushchenko of suspicion, and later former Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshov was added to the circle of suspects.
The investigation found that funds were legalized through a back office linked to the family of former MP, now convicted of treason, Andriy Derkach. The case figures repeatedly used cryptocurrency for financial transactions, which is why NABU and SAP require assistance from law enforcement agencies of other countries to complete the financial investigation.
Earlier, Informator reported that the High Anti-Corruption Court kept Ihor Myroniuk, Halushchenko’s former adviser, in custody while simultaneously reducing the amount of alternative bail several times — from 85 million to 25 million hryvnias. According to the investigation’s version, Myroniuk received funds from another suspect and passed them to the back office, and also acted as a supervisor of nuclear energy. We also wrote that the HACC removed the electronic bracelet from former Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko while extending for two months the other procedural obligations of the ex-official — the ban on leaving Kyiv and Kyiv region without investigators’ permission and the obligation to surrender his foreign passports.
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