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Professor Sigismund: How Halushchenko siphoned over 425 million via offshore companies The High Anti-Corruption Court has arrested former energy minister Herman Halushchenko, allowing him to be released on bail set at UAH 200 million. On Sunday, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) effectively removed the former minister from a train and subsequently served him with a notice of suspicion of money laundering. According to NABU, in February 2021, on the island of Anguilla (a self-governing British Overseas Territory), a fund was registered at the initiative of members of the criminal organisation in the "Midas" case, which was supposed to attract about $100 million in "investments". One of the investors in this fund turned out to be the family of Minister Halushchenko (his ex-wife and children). Investigators say that during Halushchenko’s time in office, through his trusted associate known as "Rocket" (former adviser to the energy minister Ihor Myroniuk – ed.), the criminal organisation received more than $112 million in cash from unlawful activities in the energy sector. 12 900 36 Previously in trend: Halushchenko case 
Entrepreneur Serhii Vahanian: "There was ’shlahbaum’ scheme around grain, I’m ready to tell NABU everything" Operation "Midas" allowed Ukrainians to look behind the curtain of the televised marathon and see how decisions are actually made in the country and who makes them. Hardly anyone doubts that the materials published by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) on the "shlahbaum" (’barrier’) corruption scheme, which involved soliciting "kickbacks" from Energoatom contractors, are only part of the broader picture. 229 0 Previously in trend: Extradition of Naumov Mindichgate 
How much Ukraine spends on protecting its energy system and why it is (not) working Ukraine is spending tens of billions of hryvnias to protect critical energy infrastructure from massive Russian attacks. Yet three years after those attacks began, some structures remain unfinished, and in some cases, the process has been delayed by corruption. 163 0 Previously in trend: Power outages Mindichgate 
From eggs at 17 to Fire Point: why high-profile resignations alone do not solve corruption problem Andriy Yermak’s resignation following searches in the Mindych-gate case has probably brought a tidy profit to champagne sellers. However, in itself it in no way protects us from a new Mindich emerging tomorrow, nor from once again hunting for corrupt money or corrupt officials in some new Fire Point. 6 503 36 Previously in trend: Fighting corruption in Ukraine Scandals with procurement for AFU Mindichgate Yermak’s dismissal 
"List 527": how Mindichgate spawned spinoff in which law enforcement feeds mafia files on anti-corruption campaigners The anti-corruption serial dubbed "Mindichgate" never lets the audience get bored: from one episode to the next, not only the people and the amounts change, but the very genre of the story as well. 13 958 22 Previously in trend: Mindichgate 
About "Fire Point and Mindich" Fire Point designer Denys Shtilerman has, in recent days, been so adamant in denying that Mindich has any ties to the company that is absorbing the lion’s share of Ukraine’s entire drone budget that he went as far as re-registering the firm in his own name. And along the way, he said so much that it only made things worse. 12 369 47 Previously in trend: Mindichgate 
Yurii Nikolov: Zelenskyy must find strength to hire professionals instead of loyal PR experts Investigative journalist Yurii Nikolov explains what stands behind the scandalous Mindich and Halushchenko tapes, the influence of Yermak, and how NABU has, for the first time, reached the top levels of government. 9 284 54 Previously in trend: Mindichgate 
How Umerov bought body armour from Mindich and what DOT had to break for that This week, Prosecutor of the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) Serhii Savytskyi stated during a court hearing in a corruption case in the energy sector that the accused businessman Tymur Mindich allegedly had influence over then Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko and then Defence Minister Rustem Umerov. 25 388 30 Previously in trend: Mindich’s business Mindichgate 
