{"id":1426231,"date":"2026-08-10T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nabu-announced-significant-progress-in-the-midas-case-the-sap-is-awaiting-israels-response-regarding-extradition\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:20:38","slug":"nabu-announced-significant-progress-in-the-midas-case-the-sap-is-awaiting-israels-response-regarding-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/nabu-announced-significant-progress-in-the-midas-case-the-sap-is-awaiting-israels-response-regarding-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"NABU announced significant progress in the Midas case: the SAP is awaiting Israel&#8217;s response regarding extradition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Significant progress has been made in the investigation into the &#8220;Midas&#8221; case. However, investigators are not yet releasing any details.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was stated by the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Semyon Krivonos, at a briefing dedicated to the results of the work of NABU and SAP for the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p> According to Krivonos, &#8220;significant, substantial progress&#8221; has been made in the case so far, but it will only be possible to disclose specific results when the time is right.<\/p>\n<p> He also reported that Energoatom does not yet have the status of a victim in this criminal case.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As far as I know, there is no victim status in the criminal proceedings yet. But again, I emphasize: according to investigators, more than 100 million hryvnias passed through the relevant laundromat. The investigation is ongoing,&#8221; the NABU director said.<\/p>\n<p> Krivonos added that the bureau expects to complete the pre-trial investigation of the case &#8220;on time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, Oleksandr Klimenko, reported that Ukraine has not yet received a response from Israel to its requests for the extradition of suspects in the Midas case.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, this concerns businessman Timur Mindich and his business partner Alexander Tsukerman.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We haven&#8217;t received any response yet. That is, the relevant inquiries have been sent, but we&#8217;re awaiting a response from the other side,&#8221; Klimenko said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1090\" data-end=\"1310\"> Earlier, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine announced suspicion against <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nabu-vykrylo-shche-6-fihurantiv-po-spravi-midas\/\">six more participants in the Midas case<\/a> regarding the laundering of criminally obtained property on an especially large scale.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1090\" data-end=\"1310\"> The day before, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nabu-i-sap-provodiat-slidchi-dii-z-andriiem-yermakom-zmi\/\">&#8220;Pryamiy&#8221; reported<\/a> that on May 11, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office conducted investigative actions with the former head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant progress has been made in the investigation into the &#8220;Midas&#8221; case. However, investigators are not yet releasing any details. This was stated by the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Semyon Krivonos, at a briefing dedicated to the results of the work of NABU and SAP for the first half of 2026. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1392383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76894],"class_list":["post-1426231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}