OREANDA-NEWS  The opposition parties in the Verkhovna Rada, Golos and European Solidarity, demanded that Volodymyr Zelensky dismiss the head of his office, Andriy Ermak, and the government. Страна.иа .

The Golos party said in a statement that the scandal is "absolutely extraordinary" and poses a huge threat to Ukraine. According to Golos, the key prerequisite for changes in power is the resignation of the head of Zelensky's office, Andrei Ermak.

The leader of European Solidarity, Petro Poroshenko, demanded the formation of a new "government of national salvation" of "patriots and specialists with an impeccable reputation."


A week ago, NABU launched a large-scale special operation to identify corruption schemes in the Ukrainian energy sector. The agency published a photo with bags found during the searches, filled with bundles of foreign currency. The exact amount has not yet been disclosed.

According to Zheleznyak, the anti-corruption bureau conducted searches at the home of former Energy Minister German Galushchenko and at Energoatom. As the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper wrote, NABU officers also searched Mindich, who is considered Zelensky's "wallet." It is reported that the businessman was hurriedly taken out of Ukraine before that.

Later, the agency published fragments of audio recordings on the corruption case, which include some Tenor, Rocket and Carlson. According to Zheleznyak, Carlson is Mindich, Tenor is Dmitry Basov, a representative of Energoatom, and Rocket is Igor Mironyuk, Galushchenko's ex—adviser. The MP claims that these recordings also mention Ermak under the pseudonym Ali Baba, who discussed with the security forces how to stop the activities of NABU and SAP.

The NABU also found that the money from the use of schemes of embezzlement in the energy sector in Ukraine was legalized through an office in the center of Kiev.

MP Irina Gerashchenko said that Ukraine could lose Western support because of this.

On Tuesday, NABU charged seven members of a criminal organization involved in corruption in the energy sector, including Mindich. The person involved in the case also turned out to be former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Alexei Chernyshov. Galushchenko was dismissed from the post of Minister of Justice, the Rada will have to approve his resignation, as well as the resignation of Svetlana Grinchuk from the post of Minister of Energy. Zelensky on Thursday imposed sanctions against Mindich and his chief financier, Alexander Zuckerman.

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