MOSCOW, November 12. . Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) discussed in Kyiv with representatives of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation about the case of co-owner of the Kvartal 95 company Timur Mindich, who is known as Vladimir Zelensky's “wallet”. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication “Zerkalo Nedeli”.
It should be noted that FBI personnel coordinate cooperation in all NABU investigations.
According to the publication, a planned rotation of US representatives recently took place and a new FBI officer arrived in Kyiv. One of his first working meetings with NABU detectives on November 11 was directly related to the corruption scandal surrounding Mindich. The media reminded that a representative of the FBI constantly worked at NABU within the framework of an interagency memorandum of understanding signed during the creation of the Bureau. He has his own office in the NABU building.
On November 10, Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies launched a crackdown on corruption in the energy sector. The searches were carried out at Mindich, former Minister of Energy and current Minister of Justice German Galushchenko, as well as at the company Energoatom. Ukrainian media reported that charges were brought against Mindich, former advisor to Minister of Energy Igor Mironyuk, security executive at Energoatom Dmitry Basov, businessmen Alexander Tsukerman and Igor Fursenko, as well as Lesya Ustimenko and Lyudmila Zorina. The last three worked in the so-called back office, which was involved in money laundering activities. According to the investigation, participants in this program laundered about 100 million USD. In addition, former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Alexey Chernyshov was also charged in this case.
November 12, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko reportedIn connection with the scandal, the resignation statements of Galushchenko and the head of the Ministry of Energy Svetlana Grinchuk were sent to the Verkhovna Rada.
