# Explainer: How Ukraine’s biggest corruption scheme persisted despite all odds

https://mins.news/en/item/55625

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-09-12 08:27 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/explainer-how-ukraines-biggest-corruption-scheme-persisted-despite-all-odds/

> Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities uncovered a $100 million money-laundering and bribery scheme through Operation Midas last November, implicating senior officials and associates of President Volodymyr Zelensky, including Timur Mindich. Arrests, sanctions and a political shakeup followed, but newly surfaced recordings and reporting suggest Mindich’s influence network survived his flight to Israel and reached courts, law enforcement and the state-owned energy company Energoatom.

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