Overview
- NABU and the anti-graft prosecutor’s office, which issued the notice Monday, say an organized group laundered 460 million hryvnias through a luxury housing project near Kyiv.
- Ukrainian outlets identified the suspect as former presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak after agencies withheld his name under rules that restrict early disclosures.
- Video from RFE/RL’s Schemes unit showed a SAPO prosecutor getting into Yermak’s car in Kyiv, and reporters on the scene said he was not detained.
- Yermak told journalists he would comment only after the probe ends and said he owns no house, only one apartment and one car.
- The allegation ties into Operation Midas, a sweeping Energoatom probe into about $100 million in suspected kickbacks that has already produced charges, detentions, and Interpol and extradition steps involving high-profile figures.