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Zelensky promised to clean up Energoatom and dismiss ministers

UNIAN

Ukraine

Wednesday, November 12


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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the cleaning and reboot of the management of JSC NAEK Energoatom" and sanctions against two people who appear in the NABU anti-corruption case.

He is talking about this. declared in a video address."The Minister of Justice and the Minister of Energy cannot remain in office. This is, in particular, a matter of trust. If there are accusations, they must be answered. The decision to remove them from office is prompt, the fastest. I asked the Prime Minister to have resignation statements from these ministers. I ask the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada to support these statements," the head of state said.

And further, according to him, everything must be resolved in a legal manner.

At the same time, Zelensky added that there will be a decision by the National Security and Defense Council on sanctions based on the submission of the Cabinet of Ministers.

"It is extremely difficult for everyone in Ukraine right now. Going through power outages,"Russian" strikes, losses. It is absolutely abnormal that there are still some schemes in the energy sector," the president emphasized.

In addition, Zelenskyy said that he would sign a decree on the application of sanctions against two people who appear in the NABU case against Energoatom.

According to"Economic truth" ", we are talking about imposing sanctions on Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Zukerman.

Operation Midas: what you need to know

As UNIAN reported, NABU and SAPO exposed a criminal organization , which included high-ranking officials, politicians and businessmen. They created a large-scale corruption scheme to influence JSC"NAEK" Energoatom. Later, the Bureau published some of the records related to this case. They include people with the following nicknames:"Carlson","Professor","Tenor" and "Rocket". Later, it became known that the organization of this scheme includes businessman Timur Mindich (pseudonym"Carlson"), Minister of Justice and former Minister of Energy German Galushchenko (pseudonym"Professor"); Executive Director for Physical Protection and Security of JSC "NAEK" Energoatom Dmytro Basov ("Tenor"); former advisor to former Minister of Energy Galushchenko Ihor Mironyuk ("Rocket").

Today, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention for 60 days for the defendant in the case, Dmytro Basov (alias"Tenor"). Bail has also been set at UAH 40 million. The bail can be paid by Basov or another individual or legal entity to the HACC deposit account.

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