Hrynchuk on the Midas case: Zero tolerance to corruption, everyone must be held accountable

All those found guilty of embezzlement in the energy sector should be brought to justice. Energoatom is cooperating with the investigation as much as possible, said at a briefing on November 10, Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk.

"For me, as the Minister of Energy, it is very important that the investigative actions are transparent, open and that all persons, if identified and if proven guilty, of course, have zero tolerance for corruption. Everyone should be held accountable based on the results of the investigation," she emphasized .

Hrynchuk noted that Energoatom, which provides more than 50% of the required generation for the power system, is currently fully cooperating with the investigation. The company is providing the requested documents and is not offering any resistance or hiding anything. It is "absolutely open to working with law enforcement agencies," the minister said .

She also denied that Ihor Myroniuk, who appears in the materials published by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, was her advisor. In addition, according to her, the previous head of the Energy Ministry, Herman Halushchenko , also did not have such an advisor.

"I also do not have any information about possible schemes that were carried out. I think that these questions should be addressed to the investigative bodies that are conducting the investigation," said Hrynchuk .

As for the construction of protective structures at the Energoatom facilities, the Minister noted that the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development coordinates such work.

• on November 10, NABU and SAPO announced that they were conducting a large-scale operation to expose corruption in the energy sector: it took 15 months, about 1000 hours of audio recordings were listened to to document the activities of a "high-level criminal organization.".
• The case was named "Midas". All NABU detectives are involved in searches at 70 addresses. Wiretap recordings were published, in which three people under the pseudonyms Rocket, Tenor, and Carlson appear. Mindich managed to leave Ukraine before the searches.
• According to sources LIGA.net , a corruption scheme to influence strategic public sector enterprises, including Energoatom, caused losses of $100 million.
• The Verkhovna Rada initiated the resignation of Halushchenko and Hrynchuk over the NABU case, and the SAPO announced possible data leakage in the Mindich case.