Myroniuk, suspect in "Mindichgate", was released from pretrial detention and placed under 24-hour house arrest
The High Anti-Corruption Court has changed the preventive measure imposed on Ihor Myroniuk, a defendant in the "Mindichgate" case.
This was reported by Censor.NET.
What is known?
Judge Nohachevskyi granted the motion filed by a senior NABU detective and changed the defendant’s pretrial restriction to 24-hour house arrest for a period of 60 days, that is, through January 3, 2027.
The decision was based on the expiration of the pretrial investigation period and the fact that Myroniuk had been in custody for nearly one year.
Myroniuk is prohibited from leaving his place of residence in Kyiv, surrendering his passports for travel abroad, and must wear an electronic ankle monitor.
As a reminder, in October, the High Anti-Corruption Court extended the preventive measure against Ihor Myroniuk (Rocket) but reduced the bail amount from 85 million hryvnias to 25 million hryvnias.
Mindichgate
- In November 2025, NABU carried out searches at Mindich’s premises; he had left Ukraine a few hours before the searches took place.
- On 4 November, searches were carried out at one of the branches of the separate divisions of NAEK ‘Energoatom’ as part of a corruption investigation.
- NABU also carried out searches at the home of former Energy Minister Halushchenko and at "Energoatom".
- On 10 November 2025, NABU and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) announced a large-scale operation to expose corruption in the energy sector.
- Subsequently, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau raided an office in central Kyiv belonging to the family of former MP and current Russian Federation Senator Andrii Derkach. There, they kept ‘off-the-books accounts’, recorded money transfers and organised money laundering.
- On 11 November, NABU released recordings featuring former minister Herman Halushchenko and Mindich.
- Former Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov was served with a notice of suspicion of illicit enrichment as part of Operation ‘Midas’.
- One of the suspects – Dmytro Basov – was remanded in custody with bail set at 40 million hryvnias.
- Halushchenko’s former adviser, Myronyuk, was remanded in custody with bail set at 126 million hryvnias.
- The Cabinet of Ministers has submitted proposals to the National Security and Defence Council regarding the imposition of targeted sanctions against Tymur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman following the NABU investigation into corruption in the energy sector.
- Ihor Myroniuk and Dmytro Basov, the executive director for security at Energoatom, who appeared in NABU’s recordings under the nickname ‘Tenor’, have been remanded in custody for 60 days.
- Another person implicated in the case, Lesya Ustymenko, was also remanded in custody for 60 days.
- The High Anti-Corruption Court has imposed a preventive measure on Igor Fursenko (known as ‘Ryoshik’ in the NABU recordings), a suspect in the energy sector corruption case.
- On 13 November, the High Anti-Corruption Court arrested Liudmyla Zorina, setting bail at 12 million hryvnias.
- Zelenskyy imposed sanctions against Mindich and Zuckerman.
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On 1 December, a pre-trial measure – detention – was imposed on Mindich in absentia. The investigation considers him to be the leader of a group that received and laundered money from corruption schemes in the energy sector. Mindich’s case may now be referred to Interpol for his arrest, in particular whilst crossing the border.
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On 15 February 2026, Herman Halushchenko was detained whilst attempting to cross the border. On 16 February, it emerged that officers from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) had informed the former official of the charges against him, and the very next day the court remanded him in custody with the option of posting bail set at 200 million hryvnias.
