Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on former Presidential Office head Bohdan
2 May 22:12
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree implementing a decision by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose personal sanctions against five individuals whose actions threaten Ukraine’s national interests, security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, according to "Komersant Ukrainian".
“Sanctions have been imposed on Ukrainian lawyer Andriy Bohdan, Ukrainian businessman Bohdan Pukish—an associate and partner of sanctioned individual Viktor Medvedchuk—and Russian businessman Alan Kiryukhin, a key manager of the sanctioned A7A5 payment system used to circumvent sanctions, Alan Kiryukhin, and Russian Olympic sports propaganda officials Stanislav Pozdnyakov and Mikhail Mamiashvili,” the President’s press service reported.
The restrictive measures, in particular, include the revocation of Ukrainian state awards, the freezing of assets, the suspension of trade operations, the prevention of capital outflows from Ukraine, the revocation or suspension of licenses and other permits, and a ban on participation in the privatization and lease of state property.
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The sanctions are imposed for 10 years, with the exception of the indefinite revocation of Ukrainian state awards.
Andriy Bohdan, commenting on the imposition of sanctions against him, stated that the president had several possible reasons for signing the decree.
“There are several possible motivations for signing such a decree: the usual strategy of diverting public attention; he was very offended (in the original language) by my post from the day before yesterday; I am guilty of passing documents in the Mindič-Kolomoyskyi-Bohdan-Smirnov-journalists chain,” Bohdan wrote on Facebook.
Commenting on the last point, Bohdan offered “his version.”
“Back in 2019, Mykhailo Tkach was conducting a commissioned investigation using information obtained from Kolomoyskyi. Such contacts took place through Timur Mindich. A month ago, Mykhailo Tkach ‘found’ Timur Mindich on a beach in Israel. Given how far-fetched it is to believe that the aforementioned meeting was coincidental, I view it as an attempt to signal to his accomplices in the crime the need to take action to close this case or shield Mindich from scrutiny,” Bogdan emphasized.
He recalled that the same report demonstrated that Mindich and Yermak communicate exclusively through lawyers via a very long chain of communication.
“This is very strange for two friends who call each other Timur and Andriy and have been calling each other at least 100 times a day for a minimum of ten years. As implied by the UP report published on April 30, 2025, Mykhailo Tkach communicates directly with Timur Mindich, since he called him during the recording of the interview. And this is clearly a public threat to the accomplices in the crime—not only to leak documents from the case file but also to give incriminating testimony. Otherwise, this moment when Mindich calls and interrupts the recording would never have made it into the final version of the edited and published video. Accordingly, the conclusion is obvious—Timur Mindich is leaking materials directly to journalists through Mykhailo Tkach,” Bogdan believes.
It should be noted that the online publication “Ukrainska Pravda” released the first part of the conversations documented by NABU as part of the “Midas” case in the apartment of Timur Mindich, a businessman currently under sanctions who is suspected of corruption in the energy sector, with several people— Serhiy Shefir, former assistant to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Nataliya, who likely oversees the construction of estates in the “Dynasty” cooperative; and current NSDC Secretary Rustem Umerov.
Specifically, Mindich and former Defense Minister and current NSDC Secretary Rustem Umerov discussed the potential sale of a stake in the arms manufacturer FirePoint to investors. The conversation suggests that Mindich and Umerov were discussing the sale of a 33% stake for $600 million, of which $300 million the investor was reportedly willing to invest in development, while the remaining $300 million would be a cash-out—that is, money going directly to shareholders, among whom Mindich himself might have been included.
In November 2025, FirePoint co-owner and chief designer Denis Shtilerman confirmed that businessman Timur Mindich, a suspect in a corruption case involving the Ukrainian energy sector, had claimed a 50% stake in the company.
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