The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) announced on Monday the arrest of a senior official at a subsidiary of the state atomic energy company, Energoatom, for allegedly collecting commissions of between 10 and 15% for months from a private company with which his company had contracts.
As NABU sources told the media Ukrainian PravdaAs part of the operation, searches were carried out on the properties of the former Minister of Energy until July, Herman Galoshenko, who now holds the position of Minister of Justice.
MP Jaroslav Zheleznyak, from the Golos party, which supports the majority loyal to President Volodymyr Zelensky in some votes but is not part of the government, also informed Galoshenko of the records.
next to, Ukrainian Pravda He cites NABU sources who claim that searches were also conducted at the properties of Zelensky’s former partner and co-owner of the production company Kvartal 95 which the actor founded before becoming president, Timur Mendic. These same sources claim that Mendic left the country last night, hours before the raids were carried out on his property.
According to the official statement issued by NABU on the operation against the alleged corrupt conspiracy at its subsidiary Energoatom, the detained general manager of the company would have collected more than $40,000 in kickbacks between June and November this year.
The NABU operation – in which the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is also involved – takes place in the midst of Russia’s bombing campaign against the Ukrainian energy system and shortly after the head of the national electricity company, Ukrainergo, Volodymyr Kudretsky, was arrested until September last year for alleged corruption crimes.
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