Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies conduct major operation to expose corruption in Ukraine's energy sector

Detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) are carrying out large-scale searches related to corruption in the energy sector, including at former energy minister and current Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko's home and Energoatom, Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power company.

Source: MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak; press service for NABU

Details: "NABU is conducting a search at Herman Halushchenko's home. And reportedly at Energoatom too," Zhelezniak wrote.

No further details have been released. Ukrainska Pravda has requested a comment from NABU, but no response had been received at the time of publication. The Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) declined to comment on the investigative actions.

Update at 10:11: NABU confirmed that together with SAPO, it is conducting a "major operation to expose corruption in the energy sector".

"Fifteen months of work and 1,000 hours of audio recordings. Activities of a high-level criminal organisation have been documented," NABU said.

Investigators have uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme influencing strategic state-owned companies, including Energoatom.

Background:

• NABU detectives also conducted searches at the home of Tymur Mindich, a businessman and co-owner of Kvartal 95, the Ukrainian production company Volodymyr Zelenskyy founded before he became president.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, Mindich left Ukraine just hours before the searches on 10 November.

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