Zelenskyy’s ex-chief of staff appears in court in money-laundering case
Key takeaways
- Andriy Yermak is suspected in an alleged $10.5m money-laundering scheme involving a luxury real estate development.
- Prosecutors allege that Yermak, 54, funnelled about 460 million Ukrainian hryvnias ($10.5m) into a high-end Dynasty housing complex in Kozyn, near Kyiv.
- Investigators suspect that funds used in the development may have originated from corruption at Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company.
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Andriy Yermak is suspected in an alleged $10.5m money-laundering scheme involving a luxury real estate development.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Andriy Yermak, who anticorruption agencies say is a suspect in a corruption probe, appears at court for a hearing on the choice of a preventive measure [Alina Smutko/ Reuters]By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and Reuters Published On 13 May 202613 May 2026A former top aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appeared in court as prosecutors seek his arrest on charges of involvement in a multimillion-dollar money laundering scheme.
Prosecutors allege that Yermak, 54, funnelled about 460 million Ukrainian hryvnias ($10.5m) into a high-end Dynasty housing complex in Kozyn, near Kyiv.