Khaberni - A deputy in the Ukrainian parliament, Yaroslav Zhelizniak, announced that Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities are conducting inspections at the office of Andriy Yermak, the head of Vladimir Zelensky's office.
Zhelizniak wrote on his Telegram channel: "NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) and SAPO (Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office) have been conducting inspections at Yermak's since this morning."
"I am fully cooperating with the anti-corruption investigators," said Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's office, today Friday.
He added that the anti-corruption authorities are conducting an inspection in his apartment.
In related news, Yermak wrote on the Telegram app, "Investigators are facing no obstacles. I am fully cooperating with them."
Meanwhile, the "Ukrainskaya Pravda" newspaper posted a picture from the event site, indicating that the raids are happening in the governmental area, and that about ten employees from NABU and SAPO are involved in the investigative procedures.
For his part, Yermak has not made any comment so far.
Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko also wrote on his Telegram channel that the raids at the office of Andriy Yermak were due to his orders "to monitor the work of investigators from the National Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office," as well as his supposed involvement in corrupt schemes related to the "Mendytch" case, and the existence of a third entity (property/company), not yet disclosed by the media, allegedly seized by Yermak, a matter that has been documented."
It is worth mentioning that on November 10th, NABU and SAPO announced the launch of a large-scale operation named "Midas" to expose a massive corruption network in the energy sector.
It turned out that the head of this network is the businessman Teymur Mendytch, a close friend of Zelensky. Raids were also conducted at his residence, as well as at the Ministry of Justice headed by Herman Halushchenko, who has since been dismissed, and the state-owned company "Energoatom." According to the investigations, those involved in these criminal schemes laundered at least 100 million US dollars.
On the same day, NABU began releasing clips from recordings of conversations held in Mendytch's apartment, which detailed discussions about these corrupt schemes, totaling one thousand hours of audio recordings.
