Mindichgate and memory lapses: how government officials avoided answers in the Rada
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During the government’s question hour, MPs raised the issue of the high-profile corruption scandal known as “Minditchgate” and the materials of the “Midas” case. However, representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers did their best to avoid answering uncomfortable remarks.
MP Mykola Velychkovych from European Solidarity told Pryamoy that representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers tried to avoid direct answers regarding their connections with those involved in the investigation and their alleged stay in the apartment at 9a Hrushevskoho Street.
“We saw how they really didn’t want to answer or tried to talk about this case as little as possible,” the MP noted.
According to him, new fragments of the criminal proceedings indicate discussions of political appointments and corruption schemes by persons who do not have official authority to do so, and the recordings include topics of money laundering and the supply of low-quality defense products.
Velychkovych also noted that government officials, including Svyrydenko, deny knowing Mindich, although their names are mentioned in intercepted conversations. The MP stressed the need for active action by law enforcement agencies, since some of the participants in the negotiations still hold leading positions in the country.
As a reminder, Ukrainska Pravda has published a new part of audio recordings that, according to journalists, were made by NABU as part of the Midas case. These are conversations recorded in the summer of 2025 in the apartment of businessman Timur Mindich, who is called a defendant in the energy corruption case.
As reported by the representative of the Anti-Corruption Council under the Ministry of Defense, Tetyana Nikolayenko, the tapes made it clear not only that Mindich is connected with FirePoint, but that he manages the very process of production and attracting investment funds. But it turns out that the former Minister of Defense traveled to the UAE and lobbied for attracting investment in this particular campaign, and also pushed for the allocation of budget funds for it.
In addition, one of the conversations documented by NABU as part of the “Midas” case in the apartment of currently sanctioned businessman Timur Mindich was with a woman named Natalya and concerned the construction of estates for former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov, who is suspected of abuse of office and receiving a bribe, Mindich, and two other people called “Andriy” and “Vova.”
Later, Ukrainska Pravda published the second part of the transcripts of the so-called “Mindich tapes,” which talk about the possible influence of people close to the Office of the President on the state-owned “Sens Bank” and the chemical enterprise “Karpatneftekhim.” At the same time, People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak published new audio recordings of conversations between businessman Timur Mindich and former Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, in which personnel appointments in the government and the diplomatic corps are discussed.
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