Former Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak Suspected of Money Laundering 0 34

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies reported that former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak has been officially notified of suspicion as part of a large investigation into a corruption case.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) stated that Yermak could have been one of the participants in an "organized group involved in the legalization of 460 million hryvnias ($10.466 million) in elite construction near Kyiv."

The suspicion was filed under the article on the legalization of property obtained through criminal means.

According to NABU, the construction took place in the cottage settlement "Dynasty" near Kyiv. It is believed that a group of businessmen and politicians, which also included Timur Mindich and former Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov, agreed to acquire four private residences for personal living. The area of each residence is about 1,000 square meters, and the cost is about $2 million. The residences were built on plots with a total area of over 8 hectares, the value of which could exceed $6 million.

According to NABU and SAP, from 2021 to 2025, the future owners of the residences and other individuals laundered nearly $9 million through the construction.

Yermak declined to comment on the situation until the investigative actions are completed. "I will not comment on anything now; when the investigative actions are completed, I will make a statement," he said (the video was published by the publication "Suspilne").

When asked by journalists if he had a house in the "Dynasty" cooperative, the former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine replied: "I do not have a single house; I only have one apartment and one car, which you see here."

The office of Volodymyr Zelensky has also not commented on the notification of suspicion handed to Yermak. "The procedural actions are still ongoing, so it is too early to make assessments," responded presidential communications advisor Dmytro Litvin to a BBC correspondent's question about whether Zelensky would comment on the notification of suspicion to his former head of administration.

Zelensky dismissed Yermak at the end of November 2025 amid the "Mindichgate" — a large-scale corruption scandal surrounding the state company "Energoatom," in which Mindich, a friend and former business partner of Zelensky, was at the center.

According to the investigation, together with accomplices, Mindich created a system that allowed receiving "kickbacks" from most of Energoatom's procurements — the operator of all Ukrainian nuclear power plants. 100% of the company's shares belong to the state.

On the morning of the day of his dismissal, NABU conducted searches at Yermak's home, but he was not notified of suspicion at that time. Yermak headed Zelensky's office for more than five years and submitted his resignation himself.