Halushchenko inherited corruption scheme at Energoatom set up by Russian agent Derkach

“The looting of funds at Energoatom actually worked before Halushchenko,” Kaleniuk said in an interview with NV Radio.

“Andriy Derkach built the schemes at Energoatom. He is a state traitor and a Russian senator. He lived his whole life in Kyiv, in Ukraine, then fled to Russia and became a hero there.”

Kaleniuk said Derkach, who is charged of treason and illicit enrichment, was an FSB agent who developed an agent network inside Ukraine to influence energy-sector policy, including on nuclear power.

She said Halushchenko was one of Derkach’s managers and that money stolen from Energoatom was routed, in part, through Derkach’s apartment in Kyiv.

“That’s where … all those figures, the ‘black’ accountants of [businessman Tymur] Mindich, who carried cash in bags. They took that cash to Derkach’s apartment, and then through crypto they moved it abroad into various offshore funds,” Kaleniuk explains.

She also said the Midas case involves not only corruption but an intelligence operation by Russia intended to weaken Ukraine’s energy sector before and during the Russo–Ukrainian war.

On Oct. 27, 2022, a court ordered Derkach’s arrest (in absentia) in a high treason case. Investigators say he was part of a GRU agent network and established private security firms to be used in a rapid takeover of Ukraine.

U.S. authorities say Derkach had close ties to Russian intelligence and was an active Russian agent for more than a decade. In 2021, the U.S. government accused Derkach of interfering in the 2020 U.S. elections.

On Jan. 10, 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Derkach was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship.

After fleeing to Russia, Derkach became a Senator of the Russian Federation Council in September 2024.