Ukraine's Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko has said that the government has suspended Yakob Khartmut, a vice president and board member of Energoatom, Ukraine's state-owned nuclear energy company, based of the files from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).

Source: Yuliia Svyrydenko on social media

Quote: "On the basis of files received from the NABU, the government has moved to suspend with immediate effect Yakob Khartmut, a vice president and board member [of Energoatom – ed.]."

Details: Svyrydenko said that the Cabinet of Ministers (Ukrainian government) also instructed Energoatom's acting chair of the board to suspend Dmytro Basov, chief adviser to the president of Energoatom, who had already been served with a notice of suspicion. The government has further ordered the suspension of other Energoatom personnel whose possible involvement in criminal offences is currently being examined by law enforcement.

Those mentioned are:

• The director for finance and budgeting.
• The director for legal support.
• The head of the separate corporate unit "Centralised Procurement".

Quote: "If the NABU's investigation identifies other employees as implicated in criminal offences, the acting chair of the board [of Energoatom – ed.] must suspend them and cooperate fully with the inquiry in relation to those individuals."

Background:

• In December 2023, Khartmut was appointed acting member of the company's board.
• The NABU has earlier disclosed details of their investigation into a large corruption scheme at Energoatom known as Operation Midas.
• The ringleader is alleged to be Tymur Mindich, a co-owner of Kvartal 95 and a former associate of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [Kvartal 95 is a TV production company that Volodymyr Zelenskyy founded before he became president.]
• The prosecution says that Mindich is alleged to have exerted influence over former energy minister Herman Halushchenko and former defence minister Rustem Umierov.
• On the morning of 12 November 2025, Ukraine's Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said that Herman Halushchenko had been suspended as justice minister following a high-profile investigation by the NABU into corruption at Energoatom.

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