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(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian anti-graft agencies said they’re conducting “a large-scale operation” to investigate corruption in the energy sector as businesses and households wrestle with the impact of the latest Russian attacks on the country’s power system.
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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau, known as NABU, and the special anti-graft prosecutor’s office announced Monday on Telegram that they’d “documented a high-level crime organization that built a large-scale corruption scheme” to influence strategic state companies including Energoatom, the body that manages all of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.
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The investigation involved “15 months of work and 1,000 hours of audio recordings,” the agencies said without providing details.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office supports the investigation, his aide Dmytro Lytvyn said. “Surely there will be further legal actions, and we support anything that eradicates corruption,” he said.
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NABU detectives are carrying out searches at the premises of Justice Minister German Galushchenko, who was energy minister before a government reshuffle in July, Ukrainska Pravda online media reported, citing people familiar with the matter in law enforcement.
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The Justice Ministry’s press office and the NABU press office didn’t immediately respond to requests to comment from Bloomberg News. Energoatom also didn’t immediately respond to a request to comment.
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The inquiry was announced as Ukrainian energy companies said restrictions on power supplies would continue in most regions on Monday, following a massive Russian drone and missile attack at the weekend that triggered widespread outages and killed at least four people.
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The issue of corruption, which has dogged Ukraine long before Russia’s invasion, was thrust back into the spotlight in July, when the government surprised international donors by seeking to thwart the independence of anti-graft bodies. Zelenskiy backed off that effort after a public outcry and widespread criticism from wartime allies.
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(Updates with comment from Zelenskiy’s aide in the fourth paragraph.)
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