Executive Director for Security at Energoatom ( https://t.me/proof24_ua/30955) During the search, Dmitry #Basov attempted to destroy evidence by tearing up documents and throwing his mobile phone out of the window, the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office said at the court hearing."During the search, the suspect took actions aimed at destroying his mobile phones. The protocol itself states that the suspect himself noted this in the descriptive part of the search protocol. The suspect noted that he destroyed these phones to prevent his personal data stored on them from becoming known," the prosecutor said.According to him, photographs of the broken devices are recorded in the search protocol materials.According to NABU, Dmitry Basov, who appears in the published tapes under the pseudonym “Tenor,” acted as the cashier in a criminal money laundering scheme, receiving bribes for concluding contracts in the energy sector.
The court imposed a preventive measure on Igor #Fursenko, one of the defendants in the case of corruption in Energoatom contracts. ( https://t.me/proof24_ua/31008) He was remanded in custody until January 8, with bail set at 95 million hryvnia.Earlier, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) arrested another suspect in the same case, Lesya Ustimenko, who was also remanded in custody for 60 days.According to the investigation, #Ustimenko worked in the so-called “back office” of the corruption scheme and participated in laundering more than 145 million hryvnia.The court set her bail at 25 million hryvnia. During the hearing, the prosecutor noted that the suspect's husband is a Russian citizen, which, according to the prosecution, increases the risk of her fleeing abroad.
At the Mindich trial, the SAP prosecutor read out a conversation between the businessman and Vladimir Zelensky's former assistant, Sergei #Shefir. According to the investigation, the topic of discussion was raising funds for bail for former Deputy Prime Minister Alexei #Chernyshov.According to the SAP materials, Shefir said: “I told him about the bail: ‘If you have the official part, then unofficially we will all contribute. We will chip in.’”Mindyich replied: “I told him that I would contribute too. I don't have any...”Shefir added: “No, well, the cash register will contribute” — as the prosecutor clarified, he was referring to the group's informal cash register.Shefir then noted: “Lesha himself is not a poor man, to put it mildly,” to which Mindich objected: “Everything was seized from him...”Shefir replied: “No, it doesn't matter. They seized what was declared. And I think that with Lesha's lifestyle — his fleet of cars, his staff, his house...”Mindich clarified: “But it's rented...”Shefir: “Rented. Well, you know how much it costs. Ten thousand.”Mindy: “Yes, I think more. 15.”Shefir then stated: “I asked him, are you going to participate yourself? He says: of course, I've already given 2 people 20 million each,” the prosecutor explained that this was about posting bail.Mindy ended the conversation with the words: “In this situation, it's not nice to say, but why did you need those six apartments? I don't really believe it. It's 100% certain that he hid six or 26.”Alexei Chernyshov was already under suspicion ( https://t.me/proof24_ua/19233) by the NABU in the summer. The court set his bail at 120 million hryvnia, which was paid on July 2. Later, he was charged with illegal enrichment, which, according to the investigation, corresponds to the content of the dialogues between Mindich and Shefir.
Zelensky signed sanctions against Timur Mindich ( https://t.me/proof24_ua/31032) and the #Zuckerman brothers, both Israeli citizens.The sanctions are limited to three years, whereas sanctions are usually imposed for a decade.The Cabinet of Ministers had proposed ten years. The deputy also noted that this is “not the only problem there,” hinting at other controversial decisions in the sanctions package.
The largest anti-corruption investigation in recent years is unfolding in Ukraine. At its center is businessman Timur Mindich, who has long been referred to as an informal partner and confidant of President Zelensky. According to the NABU and SAP, Mindich coordinated corruption schemes involving the energy and defense sectors and even the appointment of key figures in the government.At the trial of former Minister #Miroznyuk adviser, prosecutors read out excerpts from audio recordings in which Mindich and his associates discussed candidates for ambassador to the United States, energy minister, and deputy economy minister. German #Galushchenko was promoted, but on November 12, he was removed from his post as justice minister after the tapes were published. Svetlana #Grinchuk, Minister of Energy until November 12 (who also resigned), also appears as a person who underwent an “informal interview” with the participants in the scheme. Defense Minister Rustem Umerov is also mentioned, who confirmed the fact of contacts with Mindich but denied any influence.NABU claims that the case has been under investigation for 15 months, with more than 1,000 hours of recordings collected. Seven suspects have been charged, and five have been detained. According to investigators, one of them, former Deputy Prime Minister Gennady Chernyshov, received more than $1.2 million. Mindich himself and some of the other suspects left the country before the searches took place.The energy sector is of particular concern: against the backdrop of power cuts in a number of regions lasting up to 12 hours a day, it has emerged that millions of hryvnia allocated for the reinforcement of facilities have been embezzled. Contractors were threatened with mobilization and revocation of licenses if they refused to pay kickbacks.The scandal hit the authorities in several areas at once. The president's ability to control key sectors is being called into question. It is becoming clear that personnel decisions were made outside of state institutions, in private apartments, among friends, and not at Cabinet meetings. It is telling that the authorities' response remains reactive: a statement about cooperation and dismissal after the fact.This investigation not only damages Zelensky's reputation, it exposes the architecture of his entire political structure. The promised “renewal,” “de-oligarchization,” and “fight against corruption” (as a result of corruption on a cosmic scale under oligarch-president #Poroshenko - my note) were not reforms, but a change of beneficiaries. Mindich, without holding any official position, managed personnel flows, influenced energy and defense, controlled ministries, and decided who would be ambassador to Washington. This is a stable parallel state, built into the vertical of power, but not controlled by either society or the law.
