{"id":1435660,"date":"2026-09-04T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/billion-dollar-bail-for-zelenskys-entourage-part-of-the-money-was-deposited-by-shell-companies\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:33:01","slug":"billion-dollar-bail-for-zelenskys-entourage-part-of-the-money-was-deposited-by-shell-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/billion-dollar-bail-for-zelenskys-entourage-part-of-the-money-was-deposited-by-shell-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Billion-dollar bail for Zelensky’s entourage: part of the money was deposited by shell companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over 1.1 billion hryvnia in bail has already been paid for defendants in high-profile corruption cases involving former and current officials from Volodymyr Zelensky’s entourage. A significant portion of this money came through companies with no real business activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is evidenced by<\/a> the analysis of the Anti-Corruption Center “BORDER”.<\/p>\n

There are approximately 30 defendants in the cases, including former heads of the President’s Office, government officials, MPs from the “Servant of the People” party, and other suspects in corruption cases. The largest share of bails falls on defendants in Operation Midas – a total of over half a billion hryvnias was paid for them. <\/p>\n

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Among the largest amounts are 150 million hryvnias for Herman Galushchenko, 140 million for Andriy Yermak, and a total of 171.6 million hryvnias for Oleksiy Chernyshov for two episodes.<\/p>\n

According to “BORDER”, more than 205 million hryvnias have been paid for former and current officials of the Office of the President. In particular, 30 million \u2014 for former adviser Yermak Artem Shyl, 28 million \u2014 for former deputy head of the Office of the President Andriy Smirnov, and 7 million \u2014 for head of the Office of the President Viktor Dubovik, head of the Office of the President’s Legal Policy Directorate. Separately, a bail of 20 million hryvnias is expected for former deputy head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra.<\/p>\n

Another 412 million hryvnias in bail are owed to former government officials. Among them are Mykola Solskyi \u2014 76 million hryvnias, Olha Stefanishyna \u2014 6 million, Oleksandr Heilo \u2014 6 million, and Vasyl Lozynskyi \u2014 2.5 million hryvnias.<\/p>\n

Almost 172 million hryvnias were contributed by the people’s deputies from the “Servant of the People” party. The largest amounts went to Yuriy Kisel \u2014 40 million, Igor Negulevsky \u2014 30 million, Yevhen Pivovarov and Mykhailo Laba \u2014 20 million hryvnias each.<\/p>\n

Separately, over 200 million hryvnias were paid for other officials and figures in Operation Midas. In particular, 95 million for Igor Fursenko, known as “Ryoshik”, 40 million for Dmitry Basov (“Tenor”), 25 million for Lesya Ustimenko, and 12 million for Lyudmila Zorina.<\/p>\n

“BORDER” analysts noted that significant amounts of collateral were often transferred by companies with minimal assets, zero income, or those created shortly before the funds were deposited. Some of them were used to secure collateral for several defendants at once.<\/p>\n

For example, 66 million hryvnias was deposited for Chernyshov by Foravtotor LLC, which was registered only a month before. Another 25 million hryvnias was transferred for Dmytro Basov by Green Plus Company LLC, which was established two months before the deposit was made.<\/p>\n

“BORDER” also notes that the issue of the origin of funds for bail has already become the subject of a separate legislative initiative. The draft law registered in the Verkhovna Rada provides for verification of the legality of funds used to deposit bail.<\/p>\n

Recall that businessman Timur Mindich, who appears in the NABU case “Mindichgate”, handed over cash to the former Deputy Head of the President’s Office Iryna Mudria to post bail for former Minister Herman Galushchenko.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Over 1.1 billion hryvnia in bail has already been paid for defendants in high-profile corruption cases involving former and current officials from Volodymyr Zelensky’s entourage. A significant portion of this money came through companies with no real business activity. This is evidenced by the analysis of the Anti-Corruption Center “BORDER”. There are approximately 30 defendants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1385318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1435660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435660","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}