Yermak raid tied to Midas corruption probe — FT journalist
Andrii Yermak confirmed the searches are being conducted (Photo: Andrii Yermak / Telegram)
Searches targeting Andri Yermak, head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office, taking place now, are connected to Midas anti-corruption probe, Financial Times journalist Christopher Miller wrote on X on Nov. 28.
The search targeting Andrii Yermak, President Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff, unfolds amid Mindychgate — Midas corruption case that has become one of Ukraine’s biggest scandals in recent years.
On Nov. 10, NABU exposed an organized network siphoning off 10–15% of Energoatom contract value through systematic kickbacks. Recordings released days later implicated businessman Tymur Mindych, former Energy Ministry adviser Ihor Myroniuk, Energoatom security chief Dmytro Basov, and a four-person “money-laundering back office.”
Several suspects fled the country, ministers were dismissed, and prosecutors announced charges at the top of the energy sector. With political pressure mounting, and Zelenskyy refusing to remove Yermak, investigators have now extended the probe to the president’s inner circle.
“My sources say the searches at the Kyiv home of Andrii Yermak, chief of staff to President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, are linked to the Midas investigation — a large-scale probe into alleged corruption schemes in Ukraine’s energy sector,” Miller explained.
His post folows earlier Ukrainska Pravda (UP) announcement that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) were conducting searches at Yermak’s office in the government quarter. UP published photos showing around 10 NABU and SAPO employees entering the area.
NABU later confirmed the searches. The Bureau said details will be provided later and noted that the investigative actions were legally authorized and carried out “as part of an investigation,” without specifying which one.
Andrii Yermak confirmed that SAPO and NABU were indeed conducting procedural actions at his home.
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