{"id":598528,"date":"2026-11-04T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=598528"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:55:20","slug":"ukraine-completes-investigation-into-midas-energy-sector-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukraine-completes-investigation-into-midas-energy-sector-corruption-case","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Completes Investigation into Midas Energy Sector Corruption Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (SAPO) have announced the completion of an investigation into a major corruption case in the energy sector. The scheme was uncovered as part of Operation Midas.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, members of a \u201chigh-level criminal organisation\u201d systematically received illegal payments from contractors working with state-owned energy company Energoatom and enterprises subordinate to the Ministry of Energy. The payments amounted to between 10% and 15% of contract values. A separate office operated by the organisation was responsible for laundering the proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators established that more than $111 million and over \u20ac12 million in cash were transferred to this office between 2020 and 2025. Various financial instruments were used to launder the funds, including cryptocurrency, securities and a foreign investment fund.<\/p>\n<p>NABU&#8217;s statement names former Energy Minister <strong>Herman Halushchenko<\/strong> and former Deputy Prime Minister <strong>Oleksii Chernyshov<\/strong> among those suspected of involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports said that businessman <strong>Tymur Mindich<\/strong>, former ministerial adviser <strong>Ihor Myroniuk<\/strong>, Energoatom&#8217;s Executive Director for Physical Protection and Security <strong>Dmytro Basov<\/strong> and other officials also feature in the case. The case has also been linked to the resignation of Presidential Office head <strong>Andriy Yermak<\/strong> and his subsequent detention.<\/p>\n<p>NABU has not specified who has been formally notified of suspicion following the investigation. However, it said that several additional proceedings had been separated from the main case to investigate other instances of corruption and money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (SAPO) have announced the completion of an investigation into a major corruption case in the energy sector. The scheme was uncovered as part of Operation Midas. According to investigators, members of a \u201chigh-level criminal organisation\u201d systematically received illegal payments from contractors working with state-owned energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aeaf2fdc12b5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukraine Completes Investigation into Midas Energy Sector Corruption Case"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090,143126],"tags":[143123],"class_list":["post-598528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics","category-business","tag-ukraina"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598529,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598528\/revisions\/598529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}