The High Anti-Corruption Court has changed the preventive measure for Ihor Myroniuk, a former adviser to the Minister of Energy.
This was reported by Transparency International Ukraine.
The investigating judge granted the motion and placed Myroniuk under round-the-clock house arrest.
The decision was taken because the maximum period of pre-trial detention during the investigation had expired. Of all the suspects, Myroniuk had spent the longest in custody—almost a year. He is now required to remain at home and wear an electronic tag.
Before that—on 13 October—the court kept Myroniuk in custody but reduced his bail from 85 million to 25 million hryvnias.
The “Midas” Case
- Last year, NABU and SAPO announced a large-scale operation to expose corruption in the energy sector operating within Energoatom.
- According to the investigation, two individuals—Halushchenko’s adviser and Energoatom’s Executive Director for Physical Protection—ran a kickback scheme involving every counterparty of the energy company. In other words, absolutely all goods and services sold to Energoatom were accompanied by bribes amounting to 10–15% of the contract value. The alleged organiser of the scheme is Timur Mindich, a businessman and co-owner of Studio Kvartal 95.
- The adviser and the Energoatom employee feature in numerous intercepted recordings of their conversations. Halushchenko’s own voice was not present on the tapes that were made public.
- According to Skhemy, those who received suspicion notices were Timur Mindich (on NABU’s tapes he is “Karlson”), former Energy Minister’s adviser Ihor Myroniuk (“Rocket”), Energoatom’s Executive Director for Security Dmytro Basov (“Tenor”), as well as four “employees” of the back office involved in laundering funds: Oleksandr Tsukerman (“Sugarman”), Ihor Fursenko (“Ryoshyk”), Lesia Ustymenko, and Liudmyla Zorina.
- Former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov, who is already a figure in another case, was also served with a suspicion notice.