Overview
- Former presidential aide Andriy Yermak and businessman Timur Mindich received summonses to Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court for an asset-freeze hearing and did not appear, according to a law enforcement source.
- Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Oleksandr Klymenko said any notice of suspicion must rest on strong evidence and that his office will not preview such decisions to protect the presumption of innocence.
- Detectives also searched an aide to parliamentary faction leader David Arakhamia and returned to the Kyiv building where Mindich lives, a source said.
- Prosecutors have charged nine suspects in the roughly $100 million Energoatom scheme, including former officials Oleksiy Chernyshov and Herman Halushchenko, and they seek the extradition of Israeli citizen Mindich.
- Yermak remains under investigation without charges, and political and business sources say he still holds sway inside the President's Office despite stepping down.