Ukraine, Kiev suspends minister concerned in anti-corruption investigation. Moscow-London contacts failed | EUROtoday

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The Ukrainian Council of Ministers has suspended German Galushchenko as Minister of Justice. This was introduced by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko on Telegram. “This morning we held an extraordinary government meeting. We decided to suspend German Galushchenko from the position of Minister of Justice,” he wrote, including that the Council assigned the place to Deputy Minister for European Integration, Liudmyla Suhak. German Galushchenko, who had beforehand held the place of Energy Minister, was concerned within the maxi anti-corruption investigation into the vitality sector in Ukraine, and was a kind of searched along with the entrepreneur Tymur Mindich, an in depth ally of Zelensky.

Galushchenko served as vitality minister from 2021 to 2025 and was named justice minister in July. The man – explains the Kiev Independent – typically recognized as “energy minister” and typically with the code title “Professor”, seems within the audio recordings printed by the National Anti-Corruption Office as a part of the Energoatom investigation.

Ukrainian investigators have as an alternative accused Tymur Mindich, a former affiliate and shut collaborator of President Volodymyr Zelensky, of orchestrating a $100 million corruption scheme.

“Timur Mindich decided to enrich himself illegally by organizing crimes in various sectors of the Ukrainian economy,” the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), unbiased of the State Prosecutor’s Office, instructed the courtroom, based on Le Figaro.

The National Anti-Corruption Agency (NABU) introduced yesterday that it had uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme within the nation’s vitality sector, estimating that “around $100 million” was utilized in cash laundering operations.