Andrei Ermak, the former head of the Cabinet of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski, is targeted in a money laundering case. The scheme involves approximately 8.8 million euros.
Investigators claim that the funds would have been introduced into the legal circuit through a luxury real estate project near the Ukrainian capital.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) announced on Monday the dismantling of an organized group suspected of involvement in the financial scheme, reports jurnal.md, referring to the foreign press. One of the members of the group, identified as the former head of the President of Ukraine’s Cabinet, was officially informed about the accusations made against him.
According to AFP, the case targets transactions related to the construction of luxury homes near Kiev. The name of Andrii Ermak also appears in another investigation into an alleged corruption scheme estimated at about 100 million dollars, linked to the state company Energoatom.
In the Energoatom case, nine people have already been indicted, among them Timur Mindich, co-founder of the Kvartal 95 studio and close associate of Vladimir Zelenski, former Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Chernyshov, and former Minister of Energy and Justice, Herman Halushchenko.
The prosecutors are set to request preventive arrest for Ermak or a bail of 180 million rubles, according to Meduza.