Zelensky’s Business Partner Mindich Fled Abroad Hours Before Investigators Arrived at his Kiev Apartment to Carry Out a Search

Zelensky’s Business Partner Mindich Fled Abroad Hours Before Investigators Arrived at his Kiev Apartment to Carry Out a Search

He is the co-owner of Kvartal 95, the media production company Zelensky founded before he became president.

INSIDE TIP OFF: When Mindich fled Ukraine, the centralized program that tracks people entering and leaving Ukraine stopped working for three and a half hours.

So, they couldn’t even arrest this guy, can you imagine? Only Zelensky could have done that. Zelensky facilitated Mindich’s escape.

That’s what you’re writing about, only now it’s so extreme that probably no journalist has even written about it yet. So here’s some insight for you. It’s one of our acquaintances who serves in the Ukrainian border service, in the Sumy region.

Tymur Mindich, a businessman and co-owner of Kvartal 95, the Ukrainian production company Volodymyr Zelenskyy founded before he became president, left Ukraine on 10 November – just hours before a search by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).

Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources in political circles

Quote from a source: “Mindich fled the country at night, just a few hours before the searches.”

Details: Earlier, sources in law enforcement told Ukrainska Pravda that NABU detectives were conducting searches at Mindich’s home.

Ukrainska Pravda has requested a comment from NABU and will publish it once received.

Background:

• In July, Ukrainska Pravda, citing an influential anti-corruption source, reported that NABU and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) were preparing a notice of suspicion to be served on Mindich.
• Ukrainska Pravda sources in business circles said that employees of NABU and SAPO “managed to record Mindich in a flat at the same address where the president’s birthday celebration took place five years ago”.
• Ukrainska Pravda also reported that Mindich may become a subject of investigation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, potentially related to money laundering.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, American investigators are looking into an offshore company from the British Virgin Islands, a company registered in the UK, and a man nicknamed “Sugarman”. (This name appears to match businessman Mykhailo Tsukerman. As noted in investigations by Yaroslav Zhelezniak, MP from the Holos (Voice) faction, Tsukerman and companies associated with him “were involved with the Odesa Port Plant before the full-scale invasion.”).

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has disclosed details of a scheme in which officials and associated individuals systematically received unlawful gains from contractors of Energoatom, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power company.

Details: The investigation found that members of the criminal organisation had demanded payoffs of 10-15% of the value of contracts.

NABU said in its investigation report: “In effect, a system was created in which a strategic state company with revenues exceeding UAH 200 billion (approx. US$4.7 billion) was being managed not by its top executives, the supervisory board, or the state as the owner, but by an outsider who, without any official authority, assumed the role of a shadow manager.”

Companies were effectively forced to pay a percentage so that payments for work they had completed would not be blocked or to retain their supplier status. Within the group, this practice became known as the “bar gate”.

The investigators revealed that the scheme involved Ihor Myronyuk, a former deputy head of the State Property Fund who later became an adviser to the energy minister, and Dmytro Basov, a former law enforcement officer who held the position of Executive Director for Physical Protection and Security at Energoatom.

Using their connections in the ministry and at Energoatom, they controlled personnel appointments, procurement processes and cash flows.

Background:

• Ukrainska Pravda sources reported that on the morning of 10 November, NABU detectives conducted searches at the home of Tymur Mindich, a businessman and co-owner of Kvartal 95, the Ukrainian TV production company Volodymyr Zelenskyy founded before he became president.
• According to the same sources, Mindich left Ukraine just hours before the search began.
• NABU confirmed that, together with the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), it is conducting a large-scale operation to expose corruption in the energy sector.
• “Fifteen months of work and one thousand hours of audio recordings. The activities of a high-level criminal organisation have been documented,” NABU stated.
• The investigators have uncovered an extensive corruption network influencing strategic state companies, including the state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom.
• NABU and SAPO have released part of the audio recordings from Operation Midas, their investigation into the large-scale corruption scheme in the energy sector.