Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Zukerman are wanted
22 November 18:12
The Central Department of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has put Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Zukerman on the wanted list.
This is reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with reference to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
It is noted that both persons involved in the NABU and SAPO’s Operation Midas are in the category of persons hiding from pre-trial investigation.
It is also known that, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, Mindich and Zukerman disappeared on November 20 this year.
What was the role of Mindich and Zuckerman in corruption schemes?
In the previously published audio recordings, Timur Mindich manages financial transactions, discusses the registration of proxies through fictitious employment, gives instructions on security measures and demonstrates awareness of the NABU’s attention.
Alexander Zuckerman is a 61-year-old businessman. He left Ukraine a few weeks ago. Investigators call him a co-organizer of energy schemes with Mindich and a back-office employee for money laundering.
His code name is “Sugarman”. In the recordings of February 2025, he discusses the transfer of money to the Deputy Prime Minister (at that time Oleksiy Chernyshov).
The scandal at Energoatom
As you know, businessman Timur Mindich is one of the defendants in the high-profile corruption scandal at Energoatom. On November 10, the NABU and the SAPO published the so-called Mindich tapes, which show that a kickback scheme was operating at Energoatom, with contractors being demanded to pay 10-15% of the transaction amount.
The scandal also implicated former Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko and former Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk, who have both resigned. Mnidic is also suspected of putting pressure on the current Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Rustem Umerov, who previously served as Minister of Defense.
