Ukraine's anti-corruption agency is investigating Zelensky's chief of staff

BarcelonaThe corruption scandal in Ukraine is spreading like wildfire and threatens to directly implicate Volodymyr Zelensky. This Friday, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) raided the office of Andriy Yermak, the president's chief of staff and the Ukrainian leader's most trusted advisor. The same agencies announced the operation in a statement, though they did not provide details. According to the newspaper Dzerkalo TyzhniaThe searches were carried out at Iermak's office and on the floor of the presidential headquarters where Zelensky's right-hand man has lived since the beginning of the war.

Although details are still unknown, Ukrainian media are linking these searches to the case opened two weeks ago by the anti-corruption agency which links several politicians and businesspeople in the country to an alleged scheme of illegal commissions from the state-owned atomic energy company. The investigation has already forced two government ministers to resign. The head of NABU, Semen Kryvonos, said this week that the investigations into the scheme would continue and that the agency was preparing new indictments.

Andri Iermak has confirmed that anti-corruption authorities are searching his home and has offered his "full cooperation" with the investigation. "There is no obstacle to the investigators. They have been given full access to the apartment," he said on his Telegram account, explaining that his lawyers are in contact with the agents carrying out the searches.

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