(MENAFN- UkrinForm) He stated this during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“Regarding the pre-trial investigation (in the 'Midas' case – ed.), I am deeply convinced that we will see more suspects in this case, and that it will continue to expand,” Kryvonos said.

The NABU chief explained that investigators are aware that the funds in question came not only from the energy sector but from other areas as well.

“But the energy sector, in my view, was the top priority, because it turns out to be the most 'opaque' today in terms of regulation. As part of this case, the dates of conversations are being compared with dates of transactions, and appropriate procedural documents - international legal assistance requests - will be sent to other countries to uncover all financial operations,” he noted.

Kryvonos said that communication with international partners is ongoing to ensure effective cooperation and the return of stolen assets from abroad.

“If we are talking about what hindered us at different stages - well, a lot hindered us, starting from accusations that we were working for the Russians, and ending with the gathering of confidential information from closed databases, data on the movement of our operational vehicles using operational license plates (absolutely legal), the movement of our employees, their confidential data stored in registries. We are now identifying everyone who collected this data and are certainly conducting an investigation in this direction,” Kryvonos assured.

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As reported by Ukrinform, on November 10, NABU announced a special operation exposing corruption in the energy sector. The investigation found that members of a criminal organization had built a large-scale scheme to influence strategic state-sector enterprises, including Energoatom.

NABU stated that five out of seven suspects were detained. Among the suspects are a businessman believed by investigators to be the head of the criminal organization, a former adviser to the energy minister, and Energoatom's executive director for physical protection and security.

According to the investigative project Schemes, citing its sources, the suspects include businessman and co-founder of the Kvartal-95 studio Tymur Mindich, former adviser to the energy minister Ihor Myroniuk, Energoatom's security director Dmytro Basov, and four additional“employees” of the so-called“money-laundering back office”: Oleksandr Tsukerman, Ihor Fursenko, Lesia Ustymenko, and Liudmyla Zorina. Five individuals on the suspect list have been detained. Two - Tymur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman - left Ukraine.

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