Prosecutor Walentyna Hrebieniuk at a gathering in Kiev of the Ukrainian ultimate Anti-corruption Court said that Jermak has assets allowing him to avoid law enforcement in both Ukraine and abroad.
The fact that the construction of residence No. 2 for him and on his order was financed with his own cash – as his typical claimed, and his father – not from authoritative income, indicates that Andrij Borisowycz Jermak has adequate assets to hide from investigative authorities and court in both Ukraine and beyond its borders – said Hrebieniuk.
As the prosecutor added, Jermak's long-standing activity as head of the President's Office enabled him to build a wide network of contacts among Ukrainian and abroad officials. According to SAP, these accounts can aid him to cross the border and find refuge in another country.
The prosecution considered the case to be peculiarly serious and asked the court to apply a deposit of 180 million hryvnia, or about 17.4 million PLN, as an alternate to detention. The proceeding is scheduled for Wednesday at noon Ukrainian time.
Second individual in the country
Andrij Jermak was recognized as 1 of the most crucial collaborators of the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski and informally as the second individual in the state.
The money laundering investigation besides includes another influential persons. The suspects included erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister Alexi Chernyszov, businessman Tymur Mindicz, and 4 persons associated with Chernyszov.
According to SAP's findings, the beginning of the substance dates back to 2020 erstwhile the then Minister of improvement of Communities and Territories Ukraine was to decide to build a private housing property with a spa complex in the village of Kozyn close Kiev. The D.A. claims that the investment was carried out with a view to being inhabited there by Chernyszov, Jermak and Mindich. The financing of the task was to come from money obtained through corruption and money laundering, conducted utilizing a erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister of the construction cooperative controlled.
The media besides reported possible irregularities in the energy sector. According to reports, employees of the state-owned atomic power plant operator were to accept bribes from contractors with between 10 and 15 percent of the value of contracts concluded. Investigators besides found that around $100 million of illegal activities could flow through the alleged back office operating in downtown Kiev.
