Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have identified former presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak as a suspect in an alleged 460-million-hryvnia, roughly $10.5 million, money-laundering scheme tied to construction projects near Kyiv.
Investigators announced Monday that the probe remains ongoing. The designation stops short of formal criminal charges, which could still take months to pursue. Authorities previously searched Yermak’s home in November. No additional suspects have been publicly named.
Yermak, who resigned last year, served as a close adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and was a key negotiator in talks with the United States. Zelenskyy had resisted pressure to remove him before the scandal escalated.
Long-standing corruption concerns remain one of the biggest obstacles to Ukraine joining the European Union.
