Former asset recovery agency chief spotted outside Energoatom corruption "laundromat"

Ukrainska Pravda has reported that its journalists spotted Olena Duma, former head of the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA), outside a building that housed the "back office" used by the group run by Tymur Mindich, an associate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for money laundering. ARMA is responsible for finding, tracing and managing assets derived from corruption and other crimes.

Source: investigative report by Ukrainska Pravda journalist Mykhailo Tkach

Details: The journalists filmed Duma arriving at the DMC clinic during working hours in a car that belonged to a deputy of hers. According to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), the clinic was used as a back office by those involved in the Energoatom embezzlement scheme.

Duma spent 50 minutes inside the clinic.

In July 2025, she voted for a bill that would have stripped Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies of their independence.

"The state has taken the right steps. Order is being restored in the country. I support bill 12414," the ARMA chief wrote on Telegram at the time.

Duma resigned on 30 July and was dismissed the same day. A few days before, Ukrainska Pravda had published a story revealing that Tymur Mindich's apartment had been bugged by NABU.

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