Overview
- Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies said late Monday that the former head of the president’s office is a suspect in laundering 460 million hryvnias through luxury construction near Kyiv, a figure widely identified by media as Andriy Yermak.
- Yermak appeared in a Kyiv court Tuesday as prosecutors sought custody with bail of about 180 million hryvnias, and he said he owns only one apartment and one car.
- Investigators link the suspicion notice to Operation Midas, a probe into alleged $100 million kickbacks at state nuclear firm Energoatom that were routed into the Dynastia housing project in Kozyn.
- NABU’s director said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a subject of the pretrial investigation, which remains active.
- Other figures have been charged, detained, or fled, including ex–energy minister Herman Halushchenko and businessman Tymur Mindich, in a scandal that could complicate EU accession efforts and support from Western partners.