The Council of Ministers of Ukraine has dismissed German Galushchenko as Minister of Justice. This was announced by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko via Telegram. “This morning we held an extraordinary government meeting. We decided to dismiss German Galushchenko from the post of Minister of Justice,” he wrote, adding that the Council assigned Deputy Minister of European Integration, Liudmyla Suhak. German Galushchenko, previously Minister of Energy, was involved in a maximum anti-corruption investigation into the energy sector in Ukraine, and was one of those searched along with businessman Tymur Mindich, a close ally of Zelensky.
Galushchenko served as energy minister from 2021 to 2025 and was appointed justice minister in July. The man – explains the Kiev Independent – sometimes identified as the “energy minister” and sometimes with the code name “Professor”, appears in audio recordings published by the National Anti-Corruption Office as part of the Energoatom investigation.
Ukrainian investigators instead accused Tymur Mindich, a former associate and close collaborator of President Volodymyr Zelensky, of masterminding a $100 million corruption scheme.
“Timur Mindich decided to enrich himself illegally by organizing crimes in various sectors of the Ukrainian economy,” the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), which is independent from the State Prosecutor’s Office, told the court, according to Le Figaro.
The National Anti-Corruption Agency (NABU) announced yesterday that it had uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme in the country’s energy sector, and estimated that “around $100 million” was used in money laundering operations.
