Key Zelenskyy aides under corruption cloud: What are they accused of?
Key takeaways
- Former aide Andriy Yermak faces $10.5m corruption charges as part of a wider months-long probe against senior officials in the Ukrainian president’s inner circle.
- Anticorruption authorities named him an official suspect on Monday in an alleged multimillion-dollar money laundering scheme linked to a luxury housing project outside the capital, Kyiv.
- Yermak appeared at a Kyiv court on Tuesday for a hearing related to the charges, which are part of a widening probe drawing in other senior figures associated with the president, including his national security chief.
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Former aide Andriy Yermak faces $10.5m corruption charges as part of a wider months-long probe against senior officials in the Ukrainian president’s inner circle.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak pose for the press [File: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters]By Usaid Siddiqui Published On 13 May 202613 May 2026Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff and close aide, is now at the centre of the country’s biggest corruption investigation since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
Anticorruption authorities named him an official suspect on Monday in an alleged multimillion-dollar money laundering scheme linked to a luxury housing project outside the capital, Kyiv.