Contributors to bail for Zelenskyy's former top aide Yermak revealed

Seven individuals and seven legal entities have contributed money towards bail for Andrii Yermak, former head of the Ukrainian President's Office.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources familiar with the situation

Details: The seven individuals are:

• Serhii Svyryba – UAH 6.5 million (about US$147,000)
• Roza Tapanova – UAH 8 million (about US$182,000)
• Serhii Rebrov – UAH 30 million (about US$681,000)
• Volodymyr Petrov – UAH 80,000 (about US$1,800)
• Ihor Fomin – UAH 5 million (about US$113,000)
• Alina Voloshyna – UAH 368,000 (about US$8,400)
• Oleksandr Krykunov – UAH 500,000 (about US$11,300)

In addition, seven legal entities have contributed almost UAH 100 million:

• Miralif LLC – UAH 9.8 million (about US$222,000)
• Scientific Research Forensic Expert Institution – UAH 30 million (about US$681,000)
• A.DVA.KA.T Law Association – UAH 4 million (about US$91,000)
• SU SEM LLC (Stroielektromontazh, Specialised Construction and Electrical Installation Department) – UAH 32 million (about US$726,000)
• SV-Group Private Enterprise – UAH 10.2 million (about US$231,000)
• De Lege Lata Law Association – UAH 14 million (about US$318,000)
• Arena Marine LLC – UAH 4 million (about US$91,000)

The Skhemy (Schemes) investigative journalism project has published additional information about the companies that contributed to the bail.

According to their report, the Scientific Research Forensic Expert Institution is a private organisation founded in Kyiv in 2017. Up until September 2025, the company participated in tenders held by state institutions and municipal companies for forensic examinations and research services.

The A.DVA.KA.T Law Association is headed by Yaroslav Kuts, who was a European Solidarity party candidate in elections to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) in 2019 and stood for election to Irpin City Council in 2020 as an independent candidate.

Stroielektromontazh (Specialised Construction and Electrical Installation Department) was established in Dnipro in 2000 and lists "construction of residential and non-residential buildings" as its primary business activity.

The SV-Group is engaged in car sales.

The De Lege Lata Law Association is based in Kyiv and owned by Vitalii Marfin.

Skhemy reports: "According to Roman Maselko, a member of the High Council of Justice, [Marfin] is a former employee of the Main Department for Counterintelligence Protection of the Economy within a department of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv. He is married to Nataliia Marfina, a judge at the Dniprovskyi District Court who during the Revolution of Dignity upheld a driving ban imposed on an Automaidan activist on appeal. In 2011, Marfin himself was detained on suspicion of accepting a US$180,000 bribe. He was found guilty and fined UAH 25,000 [worth about US$3,125 at the time]."

Arena Marine LLC is listed in the register as a logistics company from Odesa with a charter capital of UAH 40,000 (about US$906). It is owned by 76-year-old Oleksandr Rusniak.

Background:

• Yermak was released from a pre-trial detention centre on the morning of 18 May after bail was posted on his behalf.
• On 14 May, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine remanded Yermak in custody with the option of bail set at UAH 140 million (about US$3.18 million). Yermak is suspected of laundering money through a high-end housing construction project known as Dynasty in Kozyn, near Kyiv. Investigators say some of the funds used for the construction may have originated from corruption schemes linked to the state nuclear energy company Energoatom.
• After the court hearing, Yermak said he had not expected the decision and did not personally have that amount of money, but had friends who could help.

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