The Pechersk Court of Kyiv released the father of National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) detective Ruslan Maghamedrasulov — Sentyabr Maghamedrasulov — from pre-trial detention center.
This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Center.
The court chose a new preventive measure for Sentyabr Maghamedrasulov — night house arrest.
Although the prosecutor requested detention with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of over 900 thousand hryvnias.
The defense drew attention to the deterioration of Sentyabrʼs health — the man lost vision in his right eye and requires surgery.
Ruslan and Sentyabr Maghamedrasulov were detained on July 21. They are accused of illegal business from the Russian Federation and the sale of industrial hemp to Dagestan.
Later, Magamedrasulov Jr. was declared a new suspicion — according to the investigation, he helped conversion centers with their fraud.
Currently, the detective who helped obtain a number of pieces of evidence in the “Energoatom” corruption case remains in custody.
The “Energoatom” case
On November 10 and 11, NABU released four parts of the wiretap audio recordings and reported a large-scale "Midas" operation to expose corruption in the energy sector.
According to the bureau, “Energoatom” counterparties were forced to pay kickbacks in order to avoid blocking payments for services and products supplied or losing their supplier status. This practice was called "barrier".
According to NABU, members of the organization systematically received 10-15% as a bribe from “Energoatom” counterparties. Using this scheme, they legalized approximately $100 million through an office owned by the family of former MP and current senator of the Russian Federation Andriy Derkach.
Five people were detained in this case, and seven were declared suspects. Their names were later announced by the SAPO prosecutor at court hearings:
- businessman Tymur Mindich, who appeared in NABU records as "Carlson" and is considered the organizer of the scheme;
- former advisor to the Minister of Energy Ihor Myronyuk (“Rocket”);
- Executive Director for Physical Protection and Security of JSC NNEGC “Energoatom” Dmytro Basov (“Tenor”);
- four "employees" of the back office for money laundering: Oleksandr Zukerman ("Sugarman"), Ihor Fursenko ("Rioshyk"), Lesya Ustymenko and Lyudmila Zorina.
Myronyuk, Basov, Zorina, Fursenko, and Ustymenko have already been sent to custody, and sanctions have been imposed against Mindich and Zukerman. Subsequently, a total of 37 million hryvnias in bail was posted for Zorina and Ustymenko, and 95 million hryvnias for Fursenko.
The NABU recordings also show the Minister of Energy, who at the time was Herman Halushchenko. He was searched in connection with the case, and on November 12 he was removed from his position as Minister of Justice.
The SAPO prosecutor claimed that one of the defendants in the case interviewed Svitlana Hrynchuk, who later replaced Halushchenko as Minister of Energy.
Hrynchuk and Halushchenko were dismissed from their posts as heads of the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Justice. In addition, Zelensky removed both ministers from the National Security and Defense Council.
NABU also claims that the participants in the scheme transferred money to former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov, who was suspected of illegal enrichment and sent to custody for two months. The next day, journalists from Schemes, citing sources , reported that a bail of over 51.6 million hryvnias was paid for him.
On December 1, the Supreme Court of Ukraine remanded in custody in absentia Tymur Mindich, who is considered one of the organizers of a corruption scheme in the energy sector.
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